Stephen Lang Quotes
My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.
Quotes to Explore
-
The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
-
Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
-
I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
-
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
-
I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
-
When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
-
Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
-
I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.
-
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
-
I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.
-
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
-
Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.
-
Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.
-
We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.
-
The course of Nature is the art of God.
-
I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.
-
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
-
I'm not a 'big picture' sort of guy. I prefer making small improvements each day.
-
The investor world that looks at studios as part of media companies will say that the studio business is supposed to be erratic. Not at our company. Not at Time Warner.
-
In the digital age, we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts.
-
That economic decisions are made without certain knowledge of the consequences is pretty self-evident. But, although many economists were aware of this elementary fact, there was no systematic analysis of economic uncertainty until about 1950.
-
'Love is a myth', Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.' 'What?' 'In winter,' Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer.'
-
My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.
