Patrick Wilson Quotes

I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.

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• I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Trying

• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Body

• Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • First
  • Apple

• I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Happy

• I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'

  

  Randa Haines
  • God
  • Children
  • Me

• Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Goal
  • Definitely
  • Sell

• Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Scary
  • Old

• To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Job
  • Security
  • Honest

• I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Up
  • Through
  • Museums

• Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Money
  • Government
  • Numbers

• I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Devil
  • Scandal
  • Boardwalk Empire

• Mister Cee's a legend, man.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Man
  • Legend
  • Mister

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • True
  • Reality
  • Reflect

• I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Darkness

• A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Experience
  • London
  • Bicycle

• It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.

  

  Christopher Alexander
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; And make us happy in the happy bees, The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Happy
  • Today
  • Night

• Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Mean
  • Living
  • Tradition

• The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Important
  • Country

• I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.

  

  Patrick Wilson
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