Lin Shaye Quotes

I've gotten jobs that I think I've done the worst audition I ever did, and I got the job. I've done the best audition I've ever done in my entire life, and I haven't gotten the job.

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• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Family
  • Black

• Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Style
  • Decision

• The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Safe Kids Campaign

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Character
  • Like
  • Just

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Movie
  • You
  • Running

• My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • College
  • Football
  • Sports

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Drew Barrymore

• You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Believe
  • Talent

• I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Up
  • Work
  • Heart

• I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Small
  • Eyes
  • Drawing

• I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right back into reality.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Reality
  • Horse
  • Riding

• The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life

• I've gotten jobs that I think I've done the worst audition I ever did, and I got the job. I've done the best audition I've ever done in my entire life, and I haven't gotten the job.

  

  Lin Shaye
  • Life
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  • Job