Evan Dando Quotes

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

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• 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

• I think you have to be weird to swim breaststroke.

  

  Eric Shanteau
  • Weird
  • I Think
  • Swim

• If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Forever
  • Atmosphere
  • Discrimination

• I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Women
  • Experience

• May we all be in such a condition of soul, such an attitude of heart as will fit us for any little work in which our gracious Lord may be pleased to use us- not seeking a place for ourselves, but lovingly serving all. The Lord, in His great mercy, grant that thus it may be, with all His beloved people!

  

  Charles Henry Mackintosh
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Christian

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

  

  Evan Dando
  • Movies
  • Write
  • Rock Star