Lee DeWyze Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
-
Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
-
I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
-
You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
-
When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
-
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
-
Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
-
I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
-
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
-
I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
-
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
-
Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
-
My parents are high school sweethearts.
-
Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
-
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
-
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
-
Fascism is very much a mob movement.
-
I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
-
I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.
-
I think America did a great job. I think Carrie Underwood fits the bill of American Idol. She's a wonderful girl, and she's gonna have a great career.
-
American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.
-
A woman, like a man, should be treated with human decency, according to the rule of law, and free of the abusive, unjust exercise of power. And you don't need to have plumbed the depths of the female or male psyche to live in accord with these principles of civilized life and the maxims of a free society.
-
I go for a couple of parties; you won't find me at every film party and never at award ceremonies. I tried attending for the first three to four years, and I've performed at award shows. I sat in them, and I've also exited pretty fast from them. It's just not my place. I'd rather get their adulation in a cinema hall.
-
I will always appreciate 'American Idol,' and I never forget about where I come from.
