Lynn Shelton Quotes

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.

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• I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Career
  • Interesting

• Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • American
  • Leadership
  • Move

• I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!

  

  Eden Sher
  • God
  • Remember
  • Think

• Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

  

  Ovid
  • Long
  • Women
  • Like

• I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.

  

  Larry King
  • Work
  • Day
  • Relax

• I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Long
  • Love
  • Fun

• In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Wish

• Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Easy

• As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Professional
  • Actor
  • Choice

• Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Different
  • Man
  • Know

• A library implies an act of faith.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Faith
  • Library
  • Act

• I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

  

  Ice T
  • Good
  • Music
  • Money

• I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.

  

  Larry Norman
  • God
  • Career
  • Earth

• I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • House
  • Funny
  • College

• When I first released music, and no one knew what I looked like, I would read comments like: 'I've never heard anything like this before; it's not in a genre.' And then my picture came out six months later: now she's an R&B singer.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Music
  • She
  • Never

• Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • Child
  • Walking

• I just love what I do. I'm not worried about any burnout.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Worried
  • Burnout

• To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Free
  • You
  • Difficult

• You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

  

  Epictetus
  • Service
  • Slaves
  • Houses

• Maybe if we said that sin causes cancer, people would take it more seriously.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • People
  • Cancer
  • Said

• Putin is a one-horse country.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Country
  • Horse

• But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

  

  James Young Styx
  • Music
  • Die
  • Rock

• Last week I told my wife, If you would learn to cook, I could fire the chef. She said, If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Love
  • She
  • Wife

• I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.

  

  Lynn Shelton