Stephen Dorff (Stephen Hartley Dorff Jr.) Quotes
It was pretty surreal to be auditioning as a kid, and I'd get close to these actors that I really respected. I remember River Phoenix in particular. I met him at an audition hall or something.
Quotes to Explore
-
I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
-
If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
-
I accept there are people out there who don't like me. I don't like them.
-
Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.
-
The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.
-
I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.
-
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
-
In business, I loved cars. I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.
-
I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.
-
It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
-
History must judge John F. Kennedy not only by what he was able to accomplish in a thousand days, but also by what he inspired all of us to volunteer to do for our country.
-
Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.
-
I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
-
I would much prefer to be overseas in a covert capacity working on issues, but that is hypothetical. That is no longer open to me. So if I can use my voice in this manner, and talk about something that I care about, then I feel fortunate.
-
What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.
-
I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.
-
Friendship is the start for what you call love.
-
The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.
