Alan Ball Quotes

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

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• I made my first movie when I was five.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Movie
  • First
  • Made

• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • American
  • America

• Adam Sandler is a remarkable movie brand.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Movie
  • Brand
  • Remarkable

• I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Up
  • American
  • Small

• African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • American
  • Black
  • Culture

• In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'

  

  Gaston Lachaise
  • Career
  • Woman
  • Vision

• When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Career
  • Beginning
  • Shoes

• Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Real
  • Career
  • Myself

• I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.

  

  R. T. Rybak
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• 'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • Real
  • Done
  • Movie

• I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Family
  • Money
  • Kids

• If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Business
  • Career
  • Strong

• The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Present
  • Moment

• So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • American
  • Relationship
  • Government

• Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Book

• If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Movie
  • Point
  • Direct

• In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in the 'Veronica Mars' movie.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Movie
  • Mars
  • Seriousness

• In the '20s and '30s, there were these musicals either set on college campuses or based on classical stories, so any of the Rodgers and Hart musicals certainly influenced me. I was definitely influenced by any of the 'Porgy' songs; I was influenced by 'American Pie.'

  

  Douglas Carter Beane
  • American
  • College

• After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • American
  • College

• I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Thinking
  • Discover
  • Gaze

• The idea that Taylor Swift would become the giant pop icon of 2015, 2016 - she's really good, but I don't think it's written in the stars.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Thinking
  • Giants

• I like to get my hands dirty. Talk is cheap.

  

  Chen Guangbiao
  • Dirty

• I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Movie