Alex Borstein Quotes
Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.
Quotes to Explore
-
You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
-
'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
-
For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
-
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
-
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
-
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
-
All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
-
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
-
It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
-
Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
-
I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
-
If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
-
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
-
I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
-
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
-
Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
-
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
-
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
-
'I am a necromancer, but not of the common sort, while others of the art raise the dead, I lay them to rest - or try too - and those that will not rest I bind, for I am Abhorsen...' He turned to the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, 'Father of Sabriel.'
-
When I was a teenager, I felt my life was constrained by rules, school, my parents. I wanted to feel like I was empowered and different; that's why superheroes, comics, manga, and video games filled my needs. When I got older, I realized power is not free; it comes with responsibility.
-
I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
-
Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.
-
Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.
-
Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.
