Bradford Cox Quotes

I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?

Bradford Cox

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• I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Father
  • Friend

• TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Decision
  • Actor
  • Films

• I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Like
  • Actor
  • Show

• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Progress
  • Reaction
  • Hopes

• After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • God
  • Actor

• If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising, or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Guy
  • Popular
  • Actor

• The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Today
  • Actor
  • Tomorrow

• I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Actor

• My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Friend
  • Failure
  • Years

• He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Book
  • Want
  • Friend

• A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Remember
  • Bad
  • Know

• Eminem is more like a friend. And I'm also a fan on Eminem.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Friend
  • Like
  • More

• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• 'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Friend
  • Loved
  • Chaos

• The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Celebrity

• Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Sometimes

• This day is a day that is proud to me, having occupied the position that I did for the past twelve years, and been misunderstood by your race. This is the first opportunity I have had during that time to say that I am your friend. I am here a representative of the southern people, one more slandered and maligned than any man in the nation.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • People
  • Time
  • Past

• Well Im back in your good graces again Remember when you told me that I was your only friend?

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Friend

• There were many seas. The sea roared like a tiger. The sea whispered in your ear like a friend telling you secrets. The sea clinked like small change in a pocket. The sea thundered like avalanches. The sea hissed like sandpaper working on wood. The sea sounded like someone vomiting. The sea was dead silent.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Small
  • Friend
  • Sea

• God doesn't want us to pile up impressive phrases. He doesn't want us to use words without thinking about their meaning. He wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Up
  • God
  • Thinking

• It's undeniable there's been remarkable progress for African-Americans in this country. They've been elected senators and governors and running major corporations. But obviously we still have a long way to go.

  

  Dana Bash
  • Remarkable
  • Corporations
  • Running Away

• Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • People
  • Mind
  • Science

• Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams.

  

  Kathryn Joosten
  • People
  • Winning
  • Model

• I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Friend
  • Actor
  • Aspirations