Aaron Taylor-Johnson Quotes

Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'

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• What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Now
  • Surface
  • Once

• Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Same

• Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Up
  • Important
  • Worry

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Best
  • Gift
  • Page

• I was an expert horseman.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Expert
  • Horseman

• When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• I think people appreciate honesty.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Think
  • Honesty

• The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Family
  • Me
  • Foundation

• I've had a lot of seedy side jobs. I've done it all. I've worked retail at the mall, just tons of side jobs, which I think are amazing for actors. I think everyone should have one! It helps you get more experiences, and the more experiences you have, the more you can channel into a character.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Done
  • Character
  • Think

• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Nature
  • Today
  • Garden

• I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.

  

  Dane Bird-Smith
  • Training
  • Conditions
  • Racing

• 'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Grace
  • Shot
  • Even

• No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Life
  • Long
  • History

• Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
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  • Doing

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Books
  • Television
  • Scared

• Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind which we hide from the world but a driving force that inspires us to innovate and contribute to our surroundings. This is the true spirit of Islam.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• Todd Rundgren is a genius, and I don't use that word a lot.

  

  Jim Steinman

• Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, "God is with me, helping me."

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • God
  • Helping
  • Remind

• Just as Jesus called out Peter as being of the devil for tempting him to take an easy way out, I believe such thoughts originate from the same place of fear. We can’t imagine how we’ll get through such a painful ordeal, so we want to take the first way out we see. We don’t want to have to suffer, uncertain of when—or if—we will come out the other side.

  

  Brian Houston
  • Jesus
  • Devil
  • Peter

• This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.

  

  Eddie Condon
  • Men
  • Why
  • High

• Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Start