Mike Medavoy Quotes

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

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• The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Wind
  • Difficult
  • Very

• I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Things

• The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Done
  • Want
  • Find

• I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • God
  • Money

• I would if I could. Coal mining was the best job I ever had.

  

  Larry Burns
  • Job
  • Coal
  • Mining

• When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Work
  • Help
  • Gun

• A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.

  

  V. Vale Blue Cheer
  • True
  • Eye
  • Unique

• It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.

  

  J. C. Snead
  • Bad
  • Golf
  • Balls

• When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Free
  • Education
  • Educate

• I work with people who come up with an idea and people throw money at it. They say, "Geeze, can I give you some money? Can I get a piece of that?" So, if your concept is good everything else becomes much easier. If your concept is unclear, then everything else is harder

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Political
  • Matter
  • Views

• If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Every judgement blocks the light!

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Light
  • Judgment
  • Blocks

• But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

  

  Mark Steyn
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Culture
  • Running
  • Track

• I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with proper respect, and not to prostitute her services for controversial or personal purposes.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Respect
  • Medicine
  • Statistics

• I think as an actor, it's very exciting when you have a really fully realized, complex, multifaceted character already established.

  

  Da'Vine Joy Randolph
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Actors

• I've done interviews with actors who I've worked with who I really like, and I'm like, "Wow, look at you. You're just going on . . . You don't even know what you're saying!"

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Done
  • Looks
  • Actors

• Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

  

  Mike Medavoy
  • Actors
  • Imagine
  • Pretending