Michael Potts Quotes
My acting teacher, Earle Gister. He had a genius for knowing exactly where every one of us were in our development as actors. He always knew precisely what to say or suggest to unlock a moment. He somehow always made it seem like it was our idea. I call him 'The Invisible Hand.'
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
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Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
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I don't think about it. I have always been linked up with everybody.
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For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful!
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Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
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An investor doesn’t have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.
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When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
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My acting teacher, Earle Gister. He had a genius for knowing exactly where every one of us were in our development as actors. He always knew precisely what to say or suggest to unlock a moment. He somehow always made it seem like it was our idea. I call him 'The Invisible Hand.'
