Cady McClain Quotes

I was on the verge of quitting… The Acting Center actually saved me as an actor.

Cady McClain

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• The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Time
  • Best
  • Trust

• The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Problem

• May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • World
  • May
  • Peace

• I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Political
  • Party
  • Politics

• I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Long
  • Catholic
  • Irish

• Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Knowledge
  • Decision
  • Democracy

• People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Passion
  • English
  • Literature

• A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Good
  • Writing
  • History

• I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Different
  • School
  • Me

• I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Money
  • Luxury
  • Squander

• I love TV. I love the stability of it.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Stability

• If you want to control other people, first control yourself.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • People
  • Control
  • Yourself

• I don't do my own Instagram.

  

  Young Thug
  • Own
  • My Own
  • Instagram

• I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Reach
  • Frustrated

• The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesmanlike habits, supplies their demands.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Curiosity
  • Public
  • Fact

• I study to learn, to be an educated person.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Study
  • Learn
  • Educated

• Today, we face another major potential attack on our country. This attack is not a hijacked plane or bomb, although that remains a threat; rather, it is a cyber attack.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Country
  • Today
  • Potential

• And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped in India. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Horse

• America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

  

  Mike Ferguson
  • World
  • Health
  • Care

• Honest to God, I do all the research on these books myself.

  

  James A. Michener
  • God

• I was on the verge of quitting… The Acting Center actually saved me as an actor.

  

  Cady McClain