Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

I have always felt terrible inside. The reasons for this keep changing.

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• I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Work
  • Money
  • Interesting

• I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Different
  • Family

• Truth is a tendency.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Tendency

• Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Great
  • Small
  • Wisdom

• I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Start

• I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

  

  B. B. King
  • Person
  • Idea
  • Blues

• I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • People
  • Hate
  • Like

• Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Nature
  • Patience
  • Trees

• The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Long
  • Character
  • Risk

• Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Suffering
  • Hatred
  • Misery

• In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Life
  • Friends

• While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Work
  • Today

• Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Movie
  • Roof
  • Viewers

• There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Reason
  • Emotions
  • Networks

• I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.

  

  Watchman Nee
  • School
  • Religious
  • Kitchen

• Cherish the questions, for the answers keep changing.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Answers
  • Questions
  • Changing

• I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Problem

• But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Nature
  • Imagination
  • Greater

• I have always felt terrible inside. The reasons for this keep changing.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Terrible
  • Changing
  • Reasons