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

• I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Respect
  • Tennis
  • Through

• 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

• I was working in Camden Lock market from the age of 13 to 16, and people often suggested that I should be a model. I knew a girl working on a stall who was with Take Two model agency, so I decided to go along, and they took me on.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • People
  • Age
  • Girl

• 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

• I have to throw off the burden and the pressure.

  

  Ma Long
  • Pressure
  • Burden
  • Throw

• 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 think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Think
  • Better

• 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

• If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.

  

  Kevin Costner

• I watch comedy on TV, and it's too cutty for me. I get a little jarred, and it succeeds. It's not like it's not working, and I look at certain things, and it has the cutting... it's not like I'd make terribly different cuts, but for some reason, it moves too fast for me.

  

  David Dobkin
  • Different
  • Comedy
  • Cutting

• Search is now more than a web destination and a few words plugged into a box. Search is a mode, a method of interaction with the physical and virtual worlds. What is Siri but search? What are apps like Yelp or Foursquare, but structured search machines? Search has become embedded into everything and has reached well beyond its web-based roots.

  

  John Battelle
  • Words
  • Search

• I'd rather be working for a paycheck, than waiting to win the lottery.Besides, maybe this time it's different, I mean,I really think you like me.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Time
  • Different
  • Waiting

• 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