Barry Bostwick Quotes

You don't have a lot of time to massage a scene into oblivion. It's like you do it, you get a couple of good takes, and then you move on, so you have to be very spontaneous as an actor and have done your homework, and I like that.

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• Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Country
  • Olympics

• If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Fall
  • Horse
  • Backup

• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Me
  • Powerful
  • Hold

• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Art
  • Movement
  • Museum

• The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • War
  • Free
  • Government

• You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Listen

• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Men
  • Waiting

• 'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Real
  • Kids

• The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Pretty

• Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Fun
  • End
  • Circumstance

• The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • Long
  • Daily

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Work
  • Art
  • Think

• I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • World
  • Country
  • She

• I just want to get on and tell stories.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • Just
  • Tell

• If he can basically prepare, be the starting quarterback, come in and execute and keep his head right, then I feel good about Weeden.

  

  Jerry Jones
  • Good

• Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Couple

• We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.

  

  David Fincher
  • Up
  • Good
  • Couple

• There's no such thing as an independent person.

  

  Peter Jennings
  • Independent

• I think about things to put them in a place where I don't have to think about them anymore. Say if I had a child with a really bad mom, I would have to think more than if I had a child with a good mom. I'm just doing my homework early.

  

  Kanye West
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Mom

• You don't have a lot of time to massage a scene into oblivion. It's like you do it, you get a couple of good takes, and then you move on, so you have to be very spontaneous as an actor and have done your homework, and I like that.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Moving
  • Couple
  • Homework