Carly Aquilino Quotes
I embrace my weirdness and the things I maybe didn't used to love about myself. Those are things that make me different.
Quotes to Explore
-
My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
-
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
-
Think and grow rich.
-
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
-
There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
-
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
-
The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.
-
Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
-
You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
-
You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
-
I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
-
The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
-
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
-
I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
-
Toleration is the best religion.
-
Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
-
Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
-
Whether it's a kid in high school who doesn't have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in Afghanistan, who's trying to forget what he did that day, and trying not to think about what he's gotta do tomorrow... I give them a little bit of an escape.
-
I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.
-
I’ve lived the literal meaning of the ‘land of the free’ and ‘home of the brave.’ It’s not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest. Even at a ball game, when someone talks during the anthem or doesn’t take off his hat, it pisses me off. I’m not one to be quiet about it, either.
-
For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
-
Every wedding is slightly different from the other. But you always get to meet the funny uncle and the weirdo relatives, and there's always someone trying to beat you up for not playing enough Beatles songs or something.
-
The thematic core of 'X-Men' is tolerance. It's that for those of us who are different in any way - in a big way, whether it's you're a minority, you're a woman, you're a Muslim, you are suppressed or marginalized - it can go the whole spectrum - but even if you are shy or you feel like an outsider - and X-Men are outsiders.
-
I embrace my weirdness and the things I maybe didn't used to love about myself. Those are things that make me different.
