Steve Guttenberg (Steven Robert Guttenberg) Quotes

Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.

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• I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Pretty
  • Moving
  • Like

• I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Home
  • Places
  • African-American

• I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • School
  • Choices

• My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Roles
  • Gender
  • Dysphoric

• I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Team

• I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Never
  • Dying
  • Pasta

• Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • People
  • Happy
  • Hope

• I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Good
  • Football
  • Politics

• Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Going
  • Hip Hop
  • Bear

• I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Live
  • Movie
  • Night

• In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • War
  • Movie

• Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Real
  • History

• I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Technology
  • Imagination

• When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• I once had a story editor ask me not to use the word 'placenta.' I wanted to say: 'Now tell me again how you got here?' Oh, right, an angel of God placed you into the bill of the stork.

  

  Jill McCorkle
  • God
  • Angel

• I'm really interested in older women, to be honest, because they have lived a life that I've not yet lived. So I really want to learn from them, and I think culturally we tend to dispose of women once they get to a certain age and they don't look a certain way.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Life
  • Women
  • Age

• The contrasting focus on connection versus hierarchy also sheds light on innumerable adult conversations - and frustrations. Say a woman tells another about a personal problem and hears in response, 'I know how you feel' or 'the same thing happens to me.' The resulting 'troubles talk' reinforces the connection between them.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Light
  • Focus
  • Connection

• He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

  

  Plautus
  • Health

• Everyone should have a great leather jacket in their wardrobe. It is perfect to wear with a T-shirt and jeans and great pair of high tops.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Great
  • High
  • Perfect

• Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

  

  David Icke
  • Different
  • Society

• Madrigal sniffed herself. "I'm almost sure I don't smell." "Maybe not, but between shining cleanliness and not smelling, there is a vast gray area.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Shining
  • Smell
  • Cleanliness

• But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction.

  

  John Calvin
  • Good
  • God
  • Painting

• Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.

  

  Steve Guttenberg
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  • Known
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