Mike Scully Quotes

You've got to pay the bills, and you want to get your foot in. The great shows usually aren't going to look for somebody completely untested, so you have to kind of get your feet wet doing other shows.

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• Being evil is easy.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Evil
  • Easy
  • Being

• Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

  

  Mae West
  • Never
  • Two
  • Take

• When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Intent

• I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Life
  • Men
  • Nobody

• Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • You
  • Kind
  • Fast

• Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Germany
  • Physical
  • Status

• If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Success
  • Free
  • Difficult

• To fall suddenly sick when you have never been ill is a hard lesson. If it teaches anything, it teaches you that you must not trust to the thing you know, that it is better to build on shifting sand than the rock which may confound you on the day it shatters.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • May
  • Fall
  • Trust

• The 'good old times' - all times when old are good -Are gone.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Good

• I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • People
  • Important
  • Rest

• I saw clearly only when I saw with love. Or can one ever remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. And that's the truth of roses, isn't it? - The perfume?

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Truth

• For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • People
  • Dog
  • Lion

• Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Music

• The similarity between Iron Man and Green Lantern is, unlike Superman or any of the X-Men or Spider-Man, anyone can be Green Lantern or Iron Man. All you need is the ring or the suit.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Men
  • Green
  • Superman

• I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • Work
  • Taken

• Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets heat out of the oven. That means the turkey will take longer to cook... so don't touch that door!

  

  Alton Brown
  • Why
  • Evil
  • Door

• Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one.

  

  John McEnroe
  • People

• If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Story
  • Life Story

• I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Think
  • Relax
  • Aging

• I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

  

  John Lasseter
  • Real

• When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• You've got to pay the bills, and you want to get your foot in. The great shows usually aren't going to look for somebody completely untested, so you have to kind of get your feet wet doing other shows.

  

  Mike Scully
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