Evan Dando Quotes

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

Evan Dando

• Movies
• Write
• Rock Star

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Movies
  • Writer
  • Employee

• I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Movies

• When I write a movie, I write it for me.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Strategy

• I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Write
  • Speeches

• Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Movies
  • Dreams
  • Makeup

• I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Men
  • Movies
  • Tired

• I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Caribbean

• I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Road
  • Write

• I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Important
  • Long
  • Together

• I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Work
  • Different
  • Small

• I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movies
  • Old
  • Lived

• People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Reality
  • Movies

• I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Home
  • Think
  • Movies

• I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.

  

  Daniel Adair 3 Doors Down
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Write

• I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Week

• I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Think
  • Movies
  • Awesome

• Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Beginning
  • Write
  • Fiction

• My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Grandparents
  • Holocaust

• Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Trust
  • Dishonest

• For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Writing
  • Working
  • Percent

• The fear is like metal on my tongue—I’ve known him but a fragment of time, and yet I’m certain if I accept his suit, it will destroy a part of me when he leaves.” Keir reached forward to tuck her hair behind her ear. “We’re all a little broken.” Quiet. Potent. “No one goes through life with a whole heart.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Life
  • Time
  • Heart

• For the longest time I have had so much belief and confidence in myself, which as an actor you need, because the entertainment industry is incredible competitive, brutal, and unpredictable just when you start to think you know what's going on.

  

  Benjamin Stone
  • Confidence
  • Actor
  • Belief

• Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

  

  Evan Dando
  • Movies
  • Write
  • Rock Star