Ira Sachs Quotes

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

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• I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Like
  • Scene
  • Theater

• As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!

  

  Tara Strong
  • Music
  • Scripts
  • Begins

• A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Said
  • Rebel

• When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Morning

• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Black
  • Popular
  • New

• I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Hero

• With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Work
  • Speed
  • Canvas

• As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Power
  • Political
  • Change

• U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • High
  • Intelligence
  • Well

• I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Never
  • Him
  • Even

• I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Character
  • Like
  • Just

• I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Confidence
  • Deep

• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Small

• The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Party

• If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • America
  • Military
  • Financial

• I would love to do well one last time in Melbourne and my dream would be to win Wimbledon and play in the London Olympics.

  

  Kim Clijsters
  • Time
  • Dream

• How did females become 'guys?' How did everyone become 'guys?' Remember, too, that a male guy was something of a scoundrel. And a wise guy was a fresh kid, a whippersnapper. In its most other famous evocation, men in Brooklyn said 'youse guys.' Damon Runyon referred to hustlers, gamblers, and other nefarious types as guys.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Men
  • Remember
  • Guy

• There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr. Obama’s mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way - and who now, having blocked the president’s policies, hope to win the White House by claiming that his policies have failed.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Economy
  • Criticize
  • President Obama`s

• Stephen King's 'On Writing' is probably the most useful writing book I've ever read.

  

  Jason Henderson
  • Writing
  • Book
  • King

• Since I was, like, an infant... I remember being in love with television. I loved listening to music. I wanted to be on records, and I wanted to be on TV.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Listening

• I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
  • Opportunity
  • Day