Scott Cohen Quotes
My feeling is that in the purest form, an actor is a service to the people. It's democratic in its purest form. That's what an actor is. If he or she isn't that, then there is no purpose in doing it. They're like priests.
Quotes to Explore
-
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
-
I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
-
The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
-
When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
-
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
-
I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
-
Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
-
Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
-
I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
-
The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
-
When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
-
I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
-
Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
-
As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
-
I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
-
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
-
I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
-
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
-
I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
-
“Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.”
-
I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, because if you compare what goes on in my stories to what goes on in popular movies and popular songs, it's very mild.
-
Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own; do not treat people as objects to be exploited].
-
People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...
-
My feeling is that in the purest form, an actor is a service to the people. It's democratic in its purest form. That's what an actor is. If he or she isn't that, then there is no purpose in doing it. They're like priests.
