Richard Jenkins Quotes

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

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• If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Men
  • Law
  • Liberty

• If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Life
  • Want
  • Compromise

• That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

  

  Plato
  • Wishes
  • Politician
  • Statesman

• Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

  

  Plato
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Confused

• Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Water
  • Honest

• I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times.

  

  Sarah Shahi
  • Mother
  • Wife
  • Immature

• You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.

  

  Anne Bogart
  • Artist
  • Growth
  • Human

• Both Iraqis and coalition people often exaggerate the role of foreign infiltrators and downplay the role of Iraqi resentment in the insurgency.

  

  Anthony H. Cordesman
  • Iraq
  • Resentment
  • Insurgency

• But if the feelings are mutual, I open my heart without restriction. I’m not afraid to say 'I love you'.

  

  Bill Kaulitz
  • Feelings
  • My Heart
  • I Love You

• Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Sacrifice
  • Mankind
  • Deserve

• It takes courage to say, “I need help” and to be vulnerable and accept advice from people who may be wiser than you are. It takes courage to die to ourselves so we can become fully alive in a love and hope and freedom that only come when we do push our pride away.

  

  Anne Jackson
  • Courage
  • Pride
  • Alive

• There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

  

  Geoff Rickly
  • Radio
  • Privilege
  • Enjoyed

• I believe that everyone is destined for greatness, but most people aren't willing to pay the price it takes to get there.

  

  Clifton Anderson
  • Greatness
  • Pay
  • Everyone

• Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Energy

• If I had my choice, I would do the same little independent films, but they would have $100 million budgets, so I could get paid a fortune and hang out in a huge trailer.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Film
  • Choices
  • Independent

• When I moved to New York, I had nothing. And a friend of mine also had nothing. And he said, 'Hey, come with me to the Marriot Marquis. And if you go to the 30th floor, and you wait by this door, and you sneak in, you can get free food.' And I did that for three years. I was prepared if anyone said, 'Can we see your room key?' to be like, 'Do you know who I am? I'm Bob Marriot's nephew.' Um, so great, I'm glad to be here and have free food again. And I didn't have to sneak in!

  

  Santino Fontana
  • Waiting
  • Moved
  • Glad

• Storytelling excites me. Nothing gets me more juiced up than having an impact on people.

  

  Alrick Brown
  • Impact
  • Storytelling
  • Juiced

• A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

  

  Richard Jenkins
  • Western