Dallas Roberts Quotes
I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
Quotes to Explore
-
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
-
For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
-
Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
-
Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
-
Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
-
Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.
-
When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
-
It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
-
We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
-
I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
-
Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
-
I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
-
Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
-
No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
-
A woman simply is, but a man must become.
-
I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
-
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
-
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
-
The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
-
What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That's what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
-
I still don't like going to bed alone.
-
There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.
-
I used to say things like, 'My name's not Al (Bundy), you know?' Not to the press, but to fans. 'My name is actually Ed.' I'd find myself saying that, and I'd think, 'Who do you think they think you are? They only know you from that!' And finally I just got...I don't know, I guess a switch went on for me, and I realized, 'This was the greatest job that you've ever had in your life. Why are you acting like an asshole?' So from that minute on, I kind of...well, I hate the word 'embraced,' but I just kind of went, 'Yeah, okay.' 'So you're Al, right?' 'Yep!'
-
I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
