Gerald McRaney (Gerald Lee McRaney) Quotes
We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
-
I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
-
I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
-
No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.
-
The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.
-
The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
-
Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.
-
I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.
-
When you have a clear vision of your goal, it's easier to take the first step toward it.
-
I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.
-
History must judge John F. Kennedy not only by what he was able to accomplish in a thousand days, but also by what he inspired all of us to volunteer to do for our country.
-
It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted toward the niche market, which is, like, a black movie is created and it's produced and pitched so that only black people will watch it ... I want to see dynamic characters and roles that everyone wants to watch.
-
I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?
-
Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.
-
No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.
-
It was a pretty awesome fight, and I don't think that any normal team can do that. It takes a team like what we've got.
-
It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.
-
My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.
-
I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
-
That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.
-
We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.
