Dirt Nasty (Simon Rex Cutright) Quotes
It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pedestal, and then we want to see them come back. Like Britney Spears, and a lot of people, it's what we do, and it's not like that in other parts of the world.
Quotes to Explore
-
My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
-
At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
-
I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
-
I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
-
I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
-
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
-
I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
-
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
-
Republicans have never been good at public relations.
-
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
-
As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
-
Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
-
For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
-
Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
-
With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
-
I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
-
It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.
-
I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.
-
Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
-
Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.
-
It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
-
You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
-
It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pedestal, and then we want to see them come back. Like Britney Spears, and a lot of people, it's what we do, and it's not like that in other parts of the world.
