Amy Sillman Quotes

It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

Amy Sillman

• Painting
• Trouble
• Instinct

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• It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • Two

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Way
  • Evil
  • Defeat

• I've always been a rough kid.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Always
  • Kid
  • Rough

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Eyes

• Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Long
  • Light

• You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Sweet

• I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Character
  • Hate
  • Nervous

• My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Time
  • Love
  • Hand

• I've got tons more stuff to do.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Stuff
  • More
  • Got

• I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Believe
  • Man

• Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • Public
  • Acceptable

• With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Imagination
  • Brain
  • Perception

• I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.

  

  Taliesin

• And ne'er did Grecian chisel traceA Nymph, a Naiad, or a GraceOf finer form or lovelier face.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Face
  • Form
  • Trace

• I am often compared to actors who were launched with me. I feel blessed with whatever I have got so far.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Blessed

• I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • Perfect

• There is a definite loneliness in the game. Most people stay away from you since they think they're intruding upon your time. And after the ball game, when it's 11 o'clock and you want to eat dinner some place, the restaurants are closed.

  

  Lou Brock
  • People
  • Time
  • Game

• I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen … that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

  

  Lucian Freud
  • Picture
  • Painting

• You see weird things driving... I've never understood log trucks. Sometimes you'll be out on the highway, you see two big giant trucks loaded up with logs, and they pass each other on the highway... I don't understand that. I mean, if they need logs over there... and they need 'em over there, you'd think a phone call would save 'em a whole lot of trouble.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Sometimes
  • Trouble
  • Driving

• I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Alone

• With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Partner

• It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

  

  Amy Sillman
  • Painting
  • Trouble
  • Instinct