Wes Bentley Quotes

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

Wes Bentley

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• Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Government
  • Corruption
  • Test

• Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Country
  • America
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Career
  • Choices

• 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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Political

• I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Sometimes
  • Hands
  • Happen

• 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.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Important
  • War
  • Taken

• Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Different
  • True

• Life is good - we forget that.

  

  Maryam D'Abo
  • Life
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Cynthia Robinson
  • Work
  • Today

• 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.

  

  Bonnie Bedelia
  • World
  • Men

• You can never predict a hit.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man

• Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.

  

  Laurie Halse Anderson
  • 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.

  

  Phillip Phillips
  • Up
  • Live
  • Hate

• What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

  

  Czeslaw Milosz
  • People
  • Poetry

• 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.

  

  Joe Manganiello
  • Men
  • Women

• If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

  

  Frank Gehry

• 'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • Communication
  • Intuition

• I love Bill Murray, but I'm not quite Bill Murray. I wish!

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • Wish

• Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken to, -to do as they are bid.... Teach them to obey while young, or else they will be fretting against God all their lives long, and wear themselves out with the vain idea of being independent of His control.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Long
  • Children

• Most of what I have seen, the churches that are growing are the best are those that are nondenominational. But I don't think it's because they are nondenominational. I think that there's a certain method by which they go about reaching out to people that are not as traditional as your mainland churches generally do.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Growing

• Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

  

  Wes Bentley
  • Church
  • Preacher
  • Methodists