Bill Oberst Jr. Quotes

If someone asked for advice on being an actor I'd say "Don't. It's a hard life." And if they walked away I'd be happy to have spared them years of misery.

Bill Oberst Jr.

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• My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Women
  • Really
  • Neighborhood

• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Men
  • Waiting

• I was so ashamed of who I was.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Ashamed
  • Who

• You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • American
  • You
  • College

• All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Nature

• I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Life
  • Time
  • City

• When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Horror
  • Making
  • Sounds

• My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Camera

• I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Work
  • High
  • Expectations

• I love putting people to work of color.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• We are the storytelling animal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Animal
  • Storytelling

• There are very few fighters in the ISIS organization in Iraq and Syria coming from the United States; most of them have either come from a region of the Middle East or from Europe.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Organization
  • Europe

• A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Mind
  • May
  • Understanding

• I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • Up

• A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.

  

  Linda M. Godwin
  • Space
  • Fly
  • Flying

• A lot of people have said I'm the anti-Kim Kardashian and I'm all right with that.

  

  Katherine Webb
  • People

• I simply want to do what I can to have the best Congress possible representing the American people.

  

  Jim Moran
  • People
  • American

• I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.

  

  Jessica Pare
  • Done
  • Home
  • Comedy

• The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Real

• My advice to anyone is, have confidence, sit back, wait for the process to happen. And when it does, whatever the good Lord has in mind, he has in mind.

  

  James McCloughan
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Confidence

• There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Wish
  • Feelings
  • Sorrow

• I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.`

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Fashion
  • Thrown
  • Winds of taste

• I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and the next time I'm building a palace.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • Time
  • Wall

• If someone asked for advice on being an actor I'd say "Don't. It's a hard life." And if they walked away I'd be happy to have spared them years of misery.

  

  Bill Oberst Jr.
  • Advice
  • Actors
  • Misery