Mike Rowe Quotes

Don't follow your passion, but always bring it with you.

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• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Good
  • School
  • Passion

• I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Doing
  • Creative
  • Process

• She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

  

  Fay Wray
  • May
  • She
  • True

• To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Need
  • Paper
  • Pen

• I always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Sleep
  • Thought
  • Breathe

• Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Night
  • Red

• I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Never
  • Effort
  • Ounce

• Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Innovation

• Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • Women
  • Architecture

• The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Way
  • More

• Would you look at me I'm crazy But I get the job done Yeah, I'm crazy but I get the job done.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Done
  • Job
  • Crazy

• 'Piku' was driven by subtleties. Most films come with the padding of the sound, the visual, the drama.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Drama

• Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Poetry
  • Criticism
  • Ignore

• As a physician, I'm somewhat an advocate of patients. How come, before Mike Webster, no NFL player was told or knew that there was an intrinsic risk of brain damage from playing football?

  

  Bennet Omalu
  • Football
  • Player
  • Brain

• Ivanka Trump's declared mission to 'empower women who work' is a welcome element in the Trump administration. As a woman with a desk in the White House and the founder of an international corporation, she is certainly in a position to improve the wages, safety, and quality of life of working women around the world.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Just because something's been good in the past doesn't mean it will continue to be good.

  

  David Chang
  • Good
  • Past

• With 'Suite Life,' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with less pressure.

  

  Debby Ryan
  • Life

• There are certain things that don't mix well with MS. One is staying up late at night. Another is big, noisy crowds. Well, campaigns are staying up late at night and big noisy crowds.

  

  Ann Romney
  • Up
  • Night

• I can go somewhere and switch off completely. I will let people know in advance that I'm away, but once I'm out of contact, I'm out of contact. That's it.

  

  Brigitte Nielsen
  • People

• Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Fighting
  • Endurance
  • Punch

• I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.

  

  James Sanborn
  • Time
  • Work
  • Science

• Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

  

  John Frusciante
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fate

• Don't follow your passion, but always bring it with you.

  

  Mike Rowe
  • Passion
  • Bring