Sean Patrick Thomas Quotes

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

Sean Patrick Thomas

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• It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Deep

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• People say, 'Oh you're so good, and you're so young!' It's like, 'No. I'm good. Period!'

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Good
  • You

• Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • High
  • Know
  • Guys

• There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Art
  • Learn
  • Performance

• The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Control
  • Happiness
  • Beyond

• Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Great
  • Done
  • Small

• I am not a good cue card reader.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Reader
  • Card
  • Cue

• Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Strive
  • Favors

• A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Good
  • You
  • Conversation

• At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • English
  • First
  • Poison

• The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could see over the counter, we waited tables and managed the cash register.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Business
  • Future
  • Profound

• He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • May
  • Powerful
  • Others

• I think more and more that I get to challenge myself and kind of raise the standard for myself every season. Even the term 'fashion' is about change. It's about newness. And what that newness means is different every 10 years, every five years.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Different
  • Change
  • Fashion

• You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Work
  • Win
  • Discipline

• But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Girl
  • Goal
  • Faithful

• When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most - a respected, credible, morally strong America.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • American
  • America
  • Strong

• I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Music
  • Energy
  • Blues

• I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Hope
  • Understanding
  • China

• When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

  

  Sean Patrick Thomas
  • Night
  • Play
  • Audience