D. B. Sweeney Quotes

If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

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• When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Changes

• Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Remember
  • You
  • Know

• Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.

  

  Zachery Ty Bryan
  • Business
  • You
  • Me

• I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Science
  • Human
  • Monster

• You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • You
  • Understand
  • Credit

• When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Serious
  • Choices
  • Learn

• It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Go

• When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • You
  • Media
  • Risks

• It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • You
  • Talent
  • Just

• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Study

• Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Self-Worth

• Only in your imagination can you revise.

  

  Fay Wray
  • You
  • Imagination
  • Only

• I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Need

• If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • You
  • Human

• Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Great
  • Art
  • Movie

• I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Always

• Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Life
  • Death
  • You

• My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Effort

• I have long ties to the women's community.

  

  Donna Shalala
  • Long
  • Women
  • Community

• When we fail to live up to our ideals, for instance, we might begin to wonder who we are - most people are aware of a discrepancy, I think. There are idiosyncrasies and foibles, but we're not sure if these are essential. Some people think they are the most essential things of all.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • You
  • Team
  • Leadership

• At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.

  

  Peter Jurasik
  • Time
  • Graduation

• If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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