Lisa Graff Quotes

I'd like to have a perfect sense of direction. I could get lost with a GPS strapped to my arm.

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• I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Kids
  • Passion
  • Fire

• You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Chance

• When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Way
  • Play
  • Stronger

• If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • You
  • Wealth
  • Percent

• I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Work
  • Live
  • Present

• To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • School
  • High
  • Thought

• Act because you love to act.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Love
  • You
  • Act

• The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • War
  • Law
  • Military

• When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Important
  • Artist

• The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Love Is
  • Apple

• It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Proud
  • Actor
  • Working

• Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Friend
  • Artist

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I'm not really into weight training.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Training
  • Really
  • Weight

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  

  Tacitus
  • Custom
  • Itself
  • Expediency

• When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Hand
  • Brain
  • Hands

• I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Actor
  • Learned
  • Because

• It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.

  

  Enrico Caruso
  • Time
  • Work
  • Remember

• It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • School
  • Stupid
  • Enough

• It's ridiculous, but it's horrible going bald. Anyone who says it isn't is lying.

  

  James Nesbitt

• I've been on 'Mastermind' - I tied for first place and then lost on the number of passes. My subject was the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy by Philip Pullman. If I did it again, I'd choose Shakespearian tragedies.

  

  David Harewood
  • Lost
  • Dark

• Radar Officer: I've lost the sweeps, the bleeps, and the creeps! Explains via vocal sound effectsDark Helmet aside to Colonel Sandurz: That's not all he's lost.

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Lost

• I'd like to have a perfect sense of direction. I could get lost with a GPS strapped to my arm.

  

  Lisa Graff
  • Lost
  • Perfect