Michael Pena Quotes

I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

Michael Pena

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• I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • Heart
  • Think

• While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

  

  Lance Ito
  • American
  • Day
  • Value

• I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Think
  • Myself

• There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Politician
  • Out
  • Smarter

• I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Player

• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Long
  • Power

• I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Game

• Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Great
  • Men
  • Fame

• Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Day
  • Legal
  • Offensive

• Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • America
  • Hair
  • Color

• Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Work
  • Different
  • Today

• I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• To me, running is therapy. It's mood-altering and gets my endorphins going. It's also a great release and a great energy builder.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Mood

• I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Time
  • Best
  • Ability

• Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Fear
  • Reason
  • Calm

• I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Line
  • Circle
  • Round

• I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Great
  • History
  • City

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• I really believe that the more distractions and fixes I remove from my life, the better I'll feel about myself. The biggest of those is Depeche Mode. It's the one marriage that survived, but I'm not sure it works - for me, anyway. Jumping on a plane to go somewhere else and be told how wonderful I am doesn't feel good any more.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Life
  • Good
  • Believe

• Because of 'World War Z' and 'The Walking Dead,' I can't pitch a modest little zombie film which is meant to be sociopolitical.

  

  George A. Romero
  • World
  • War
  • Walking

• I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

  

  Michael Pena
  • Writing
  • Hollywood
  • Underrated