Ian McLeod Quotes

I have got a reputation to protect.

Ian McLeod

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• I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Thought
  • Doing
  • Blues

• I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

  

  Sam Neill
  • World
  • Acting
  • Sea

• I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Beauty
  • Voice
  • Charming

• I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Women
  • Real
  • Interesting

• It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Women
  • Always

• I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • She
  • Know
  • Amazing

• Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Life
  • Road
  • Same

• I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Home
  • Funny
  • Wife

• I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Nice
  • Boy
  • Mongolian

• Fear goes where it is invited.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Fear

• Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Curiosity

• Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • People
  • World
  • Hand

• Flattery won’t hurt you if you don’t swallow it.

  

  Kin Hubbard
  • Hurt

• Wine is good, but water is preferable at table.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Good
  • Water
  • Wine

• That's my house and that's my car. That's my dog in my backyard. There's the window to the room. Where she lays her pretty headI planted that tree out by the fence. Not long after we moved in. That's my kids and that's my wife. Who's that man, runnin' my life?

  

  Toby Keith
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• Most people keep their brains between their legs

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • People

• Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • School
  • Book

• I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.

  

  William Petersen
  • Knows
  • Actors
  • Bitter

• The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.

  

  Portia Simpson-Miller
  • School
  • High
  • Girl

• I have got a reputation to protect.

  

  Ian McLeod