Valerie Martin Quotes

Actors are superstitious about beggars, perhaps because we're largely in the same line.

Valerie Martin

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• Mark Twain cannot be defined.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Mark
  • Mark Twain
  • Twain

• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Chaos
  • Step
  • Boredom

• I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Work
  • Never
  • Thought

• I like to work.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Work
  • Like

• It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • May
  • Inspire
  • Collaboration

• I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Thinking
  • Dog
  • Innocent

• Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Ignore
  • Behinds
  • Storytelling

• I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Looks
  • Ego

• Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Ideas
  • Audience
  • Connection

• For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Teacher

• God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Judged
  • Cross of Christ

• It's going to be hard, because he hasn't played in one year, ... I don't care how good you are, baseball is a game of conditioning and timing. But, knowing him ? he's so strong mentally ? you never know. We'll see what happens. It's going to be very, very interesting to see.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • Good
  • Game
  • Strong

• Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Life
  • Family
  • Education

• I think some of you have to go through the pain of being rejected, the pain of being attacked on television, and ultimately there are people at home who are rooting for you and are wondering why more people don't defend what they stand up for.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

  

  Georges Bataille
  • Truth
  • Face
  • Contradiction

• [Making people laugh] was a secret dream I kept and I didn't tell anybody about it until I was about 18.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Dream
  • Laughing

• I would have to go back to being a dog. I've called myself a dog for many years.

  

  Hank Williams III
  • Years
  • Dog

• All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.

  

  Adhir Kalyan
  • Inspiration
  • Actors
  • Characters

• You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that you can find. If you don't start with that then it sort of defies the whole purpose of trying to make the best film that you can make.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Trying
  • Purpose
  • Film

• Actors are superstitious about beggars, perhaps because we're largely in the same line.

  

  Valerie Martin
  • Actors
  • Superstitious
  • Beggars