Ken Casey (Kenneth William "Ken" Casey Jr.) Quotes
The friends I grew up with are still the people I surround myself with now. And even with the shows in other cities, too.
Quotes to Explore
-
Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
-
My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
-
You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
-
I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
-
I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
-
And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.
-
The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.
-
There was a period of time when I couldn't seem to get anything. I was on the series 'Daniel Boone,' and then, when that ended, I was still under 18, so I was too young to be in the older category and too old to be a child. So there was a few years there that were dry.
-
Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
-
'It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,' she explained.
-
It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.
-
Society is so quick to encourage women to see each other as competition, but I think it's important we celebrate and embrace the pieces of our identity we share with others.
-
As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.
-
Even in my comedies, I don't take anger as a joke. I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it. One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.
-
The problem with not saving is it can often mean you're - a crisis away from, as we've seen in some cases, living in your car or losing your home or - having your lights shut off.
-
I actually played violin on 'E.T.' I used to be a violinist.
-
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
-
I came to New York late; I was already past 30.
-
The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.
-
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
-
For me, having a balance between work and personal life is very important.
-
When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.
-
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
-
The friends I grew up with are still the people I surround myself with now. And even with the shows in other cities, too.
