Finn Wittrock Quotes
I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection and so little you have control of. Writing is something that you can do, and no one can tell you not to.
Quotes to Explore
-
Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
-
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
-
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
-
It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
-
What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
-
Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
-
It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
-
I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
-
I'm very open-minded.
-
It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
-
I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
-
In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
-
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
-
My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
-
'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
-
I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
-
Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
-
It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
-
I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
-
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
-
As for the healing, that comes from the writing, from living and writing. That's my catharsis. That's why I never regret sharing because it's part of my healing!
-
It had a profound impact on me as a human being, and I did a lot of growing within that, so that will always be a defining moment in my life, a defining time.
-
It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
-
I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection and so little you have control of. Writing is something that you can do, and no one can tell you not to.
