William H. Gass Quotes
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
Quotes to Explore
-
Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
-
Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
-
I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
-
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
-
Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
-
I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
-
I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
-
I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
-
'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
-
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
-
There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
-
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
-
Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
-
I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
-
I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
-
When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
-
You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
-
I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.
-
My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.
-
The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.
-
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
-
I've realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I'm going to four or five months of my life to something even if I'm overpaid, it's four or five months of my life away from home, away from my son, away from family and friends. I better believe in it on some level even if it's a big movie.
-
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
