William Petersen Quotes

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.

William Petersen

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• Reason
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• People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
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• I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
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• Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

  

  Washington Irving
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• A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  

  Ovid
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• Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.

  

  J. R. Smith
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• I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Play
  • Language
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• Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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  • Respect
  • Thoughts

• It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Great
  • Friends

• Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • You
  • Comedy
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• I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Real

• I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Look
  • Grow
  • Portrait

• A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Me

• I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Human
  • Conviction
  • Intellect

• When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

  

  Larry David
  • Good
  • New York
  • Homeless

• I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Life
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• While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • War
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• I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • She
  • Start
  • Year

• I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.

  

  Charisma Carpenter
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Character

• There have been many times when I thought I was having a logical discussion with a woman, and then I'm left sitting alone, confused, trying to recount how it went down.

  

  Alex O'Loughlin
  • Trying
  • Alone
  • Confused

• You entrust your money to banks, God entrusts His money to you. How would you feel if the bank took your money and used it to play the lottery or gamble with it? So, how does God feel?

  

  Tony Evans
  • Play
  • Christian
  • Feels

• Some guys lock up when they hear the crowd. I feel the energy and take it with me into the fight. I've been in front of huge crowds and know to use that energy.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • Energy
  • Fight
  • Crowd

• I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Giving
  • Photographer
  • Interpretation

• One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.

  

  William Petersen
  • Giving
  • Responsibility
  • Reason