Catherine Keener (Catherine Ann Keener) Quotes

Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.

Catherine Keener

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• People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Up
  • Speak

• Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Fun
  • Voice

• I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they become bigger than they should be, really. There are things that people do every day in their little workshops that they'll take to heaven with them. You've got to realise that it's not everything, making films.

  

  Hans Matheson
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• I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

  

  Major Owens
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• There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.

  

  Larry David
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  • Life
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• I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and even when they are extremely perfect and harmless, people still go after them. So I figure, if I'm going to get negativity regardless, why do I have to worry about what somebody thinks of me?

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Why
  • Perfect

• People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organizations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
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• There is one thing that ought to be taught in all the colleges,Which is that people ought to be taught not to go around always making apologies.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People

• At midnight they can come into your room and take you away. They can put a black hood on you, take you to a secret place and interrogate you, trying to stop what you’re doing. They threaten people, your family, saying: 'Your children won’t find jobs.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
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  • Trying

• I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up.

  

  Luke Wilson
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  • Up
  • Trying

• An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

  

  James A. Michener
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  • Age
  • Light

• People often ask if my books should be read in any particular order, but they're all standalone novels, so picking up any one of them would be fine.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
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  • Up

• It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.

  

  Eleanor Catton
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  • Character
  • Action

• I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.

  

  James Cameron
  • People
  • Ocean

• I'd rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I'm scared people won't get it.

  

  James Bobin
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  • Simple

• So people ask, 'But how can you work for a friend?' I say it's because I know that the magazine is called 'O.' The bottom line is somebody has to have the final word. Oprah's not right all the time, but her record is pretty damn good. That's not to say you can't disagree.

  

  Gayle King
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.

  

  Marvin Sapp
  • People

• I'm just living each day, and I'm better equipped to do so. I mean, I used to be totally afraid, I used to have, like, permanent stage fright. But now I'm trying to have fun. I'm trying to bring as much happiness to as many people as possible.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fun

• I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
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  • Different
  • Father

• I think, if I had a big flop, that probably it would have ended the string at Disney, but it didn't! Every film was a success.

  

  Dean Jones
  • Success
  • Disney

• There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about the paratroopers I served with who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.

  

  Chris Gibson
  • Sacrifice

• Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Good
  • Work
  • Look

• Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.

  

  Catherine Keener
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Looks