Catherine Keener (Catherine Ann Keener) Quotes

I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

Catherine Keener

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• I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Play
  • Look
  • Figures

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Life
  • Know
  • Ocean

• Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Dont believe the hype. It tastes like someone scraped off the bottom of a birdcage and stuck it on a piece of toast.

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • Believe
  • Bottom
  • Stuck

• To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Blind
  • Figures
  • Hearing

• I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.

  

  LL Cool J
  • People
  • Time
  • Cool

• The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

  

  Len Wein
  • Character
  • Humanity
  • Remains

• A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.

  

  David Reuben
  • Long
  • Together
  • Rock

• Look at their arts, their power of turning stone into lifelike figures, and above all, the way in which they can transfer their thoughts to white leaves, so that others, many many years hence, can read them and know all that was passing, and what men thought and did in the long bygone. Truly it is marvelous.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Art
  • Figures
  • Stones

• One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Sea
  • Bottom

• Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Figures
  • Russia

• I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Time
  • Business
  • Figures

• Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Bottom
  • Attempt

• One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Language
  • Mathematics
  • Figures

• I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Pride
  • Loved
  • Gentleman

• I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.

  

  Robin Gibb Bee Gees
  • Country
  • Figures
  • Historical

• My acting range is incredibly limited and narrow, but I'm a good heavy. I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. "Can you be a cop?" Sure. "Can you be a Marine?" Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Acting
  • Figures
  • Marine

• Live like you're at the bottom, even if you're at the top.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Live
  • Bottom
  • Top

• I think about what's the best way to serve people. In business, if you do more for others than anybody else does, you dominate. That's the bottom line.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Way

• Bottom line, if people don't say what they believe, those ideas and feelings get lost. If they are lost often enough, those ideas and feelings never return.

  

  David Wojnarowicz
  • People
  • Believe
  • Enough

• Reason can never prove the existence of God.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Reason
  • Existence

• I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

  

  Catherine Keener
  • Figures
  • Bottom
  • Driveway