Richard Phillips Quotes
'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.
Quotes to Explore
-
Any competent actor could have done what I did.
-
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
-
Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
-
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
-
Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
-
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
-
We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
-
All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
-
I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
-
I was kind of lost for several years.
-
The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
-
When studios start telling me why a particular film project won't work, I remember 'Rocky.' I remember that the biggest success Bob Chartoff and I have had was a film nobody wanted to make.
-
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
-
I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that's where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there's always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship.
-
Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.
-
Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.
-
I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.
-
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
-
There are very few actors who are truly good at improvising; that's a real skill.
-
No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn't have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers.
-
Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.
-
If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.
-
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
-
'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.
