Wes Bentley Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
-
If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
-
Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
-
Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
-
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
-
I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
-
I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
-
Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
-
I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.
-
Life is good - we forget that.
-
When you're trying to sustain a high level of intensity and panic, sometimes it actually helps to have something happen that makes you really afraid because even if in real life it wouldn't make you that scared, to take that little bit of fear and be melodramatic about it, I guess, and convince yourself that it's worse, can be effective.
-
Sly always had us rehearsing, and he always had something planned out that he wanted us to do. So it wasn't ever like, 'Well what should we work on?' It was never that. He always had the plan, 'This is what we're going to do today, shoop shoop shoop shoop,' and everybody's minds were in the same direction.
-
If someone were to come from another planet and see the world through movies, they'd think that the world was populated by white men in their 30s who shoot a lot.
-
You can never predict a hit.
-
Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.
-
I hate performing on live television. It's so scary, because, if you screw up, you don't really get any retakes. So when I do television shows now, having been on 'Idol' really helps me mentally to just kind of take it all in. So I learned a lot from it.
-
What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
-
I got to L.A. in 2000, when we were coming off the '90s: women looked like men and the men all looked like women.
-
I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.
-
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
-
The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
-
I am deeply aware of the pain caused to any victim of child abuse, especially at the hands of a trustworthy person within the church. I do encourage any person who believes they have been a victim of abuse to come forward and to inform the police.
-
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.
-
Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.
