Micky Dolenz Quotes

I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.

Micky Dolenz The Monkees

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• I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Television

• I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Love
  • Acting
  • Filmmaking

• I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Insecure

• Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Body

• I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Home

• Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Sick

• I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Want
  • Career
  • Know

• I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Mood

• I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • Work
  • Start

• I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Knowledge

• The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Knowledge
  • Tree

• We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • People

• I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

  

  Alan Ball
  • World

• Here in Denver, we want to thank Jeremy Jacobs for the way he runs his business. Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten Ray Bourque and won a Stanley Cup.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Business

• When I was younger, I just wanted to be a singer.

  

  Colbie Caillat

• There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Magic

• Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Work
  • Music
  • Important

• Time is the wisest counselor of all.

  

  Pericles
  • Time

• Police and prosecutors and the courts have got to talk together.

  

  Janet Reno
  • Together
  • Police

• The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.

  

  Andrea Brown
  • Children
  • Best
  • Writers

• For all of us who have been involved in the recovery efforts to bring back and strengthen wild salmon runs, we fear that this change in policy could lead to further declines in these wild stocks.

  

  Norm Dicks
  • Effort
  • Recovery
  • Salmon

• Find the best in everybody. … you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • True
  • Compassion
  • Patience

• I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.

  

  Micky Dolenz The Monkees
  • Chase awards