Benjamin McKenzie Quotes

It's really wonderful to come to work and have each episode be different, in a way. They have similar structure sometimes with the villain, but we can go in any direction we want. If we want to do an episode set in the circus, we can do that. You know how precious that is. That doesn't come around a lot.

Benjamin McKenzie

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• When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Done
  • Meetings

• The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Forever
  • Failure
  • Possible

• Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Today
  • Dreams
  • Questions

• Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Respect
  • Myself
  • Gossip

• For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • American
  • High
  • Culture

• In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Time
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Character
  • Like
  • Old

• Dude, everybody wants to be Andre 3000. He's got abs for days. How does that guy get so ripped?

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Guy
  • Wants
  • Got

• God helps those who fear Him.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Fear
  • Him

• It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • True
  • Win
  • Award

• The thing running through me is the same thing that writes songs. It's the fighter about to get into the ring. It's like, I'm not here to entertain you; I'm here to get this out, whatever it is.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Me
  • Running
  • Same

• If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Play
  • Born
  • Ugly

• The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.

  

  Bar Paly
  • Career
  • Amazing
  • Direction

• The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first 'adult novel,' Lucy Maud Montgomery's 'The Blue Castle.'

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • She
  • Book
  • Mother

• It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!

  

  Sally Ride
  • Sleep
  • Easy
  • Be Careful

• Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • History
  • Internet
  • Public

• The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Moral
  • Lies

• The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Eyes
  • English
  • Anxiety

• The critics are always right. The only way you shut them up is by winning.

  

  Chuck Noll
  • Up
  • Winning

• Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

  

  Anne Carson
  • World
  • Taken

• If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

  

  Lou Gramm Foreigner
  • Work
  • Road

• I've been very lucky. I made a choice, getting out of school, to follow the work and the people that really struck my heartstrings; 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' was one of those - maybe it was an accident.

  

  Phillipa Soo
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• A work of visionary art can shock a person out of their normal thinking patterns and help them to see the world in a new way, helping them to transfigure their perception of reality. Obviously, it's only one of many potential catalysts to healing and transformation, but I think it can be a significant one.

  

  Alex Grey
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• It's really wonderful to come to work and have each episode be different, in a way. They have similar structure sometimes with the villain, but we can go in any direction we want. If we want to do an episode set in the circus, we can do that. You know how precious that is. That doesn't come around a lot.

  

  Benjamin McKenzie
  • Work
  • Direction
  • Precious