Lisa Cholodenko Quotes

Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.

Lisa Cholodenko

• Opportunity

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • World
  • Nature
  • Team

• If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Actor

• I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Country
  • America
  • Criticism

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Different
  • Done
  • Want

• I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Cool
  • Face
  • Bus

• That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.

  

  Kajol
  • Men
  • Everything
  • Turn

• All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Dream
  • You
  • Try

• To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Work
  • Talent

• Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Trying
  • Wise
  • Fool

• I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Growing

• The truth is I love musical theater and always have.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Theater

• It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Dream
  • Boy
  • Superhero

• Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'

  

  A.J. Styles
  • May
  • Think
  • Guy

• In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Free
  • Political
  • Party

• Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Help
  • Looking
  • Tragedy

• Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Look
  • Economics
  • Alternative

• My goal's always to connect and relate to my audience. I want them to leave my show feeling like they got to know me better - not only that, but like we could be friends. I want people to leave going, 'Oh my gosh, I could totally hang out with her!'

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Feeling

• The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then the idea of creating a morality we like better is incoherent. Moreover, it would seem that until we had created our new morality, we would have no standard by which to criticize God. Since we have not yet created one, the standard by which we judge Him must be the very standard that He gave us. If it is good enough to judge Him by, then why do we need a new one?

  

  J. Budziszewski
  • Enough
  • Judging
  • Morality

• The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I'll get to make five albums. That'd be nice.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Opportunity
  • Nice
  • Crazy

• I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.

  

  Michael Nutter
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Educated

• In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • Time

• Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.

  

  Lisa Cholodenko
  • Opportunity