J. J. Abrams Quotes

Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.

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• I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Life
  • Time
  • Car

• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sometimes

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Live
  • Family
  • Looking

• Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • Treat

• For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Music
  • Power
  • Free

• The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Believe
  • True
  • Crazy

• Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Going
  • Putin

• This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Good
  • Professional
  • Playing

• As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Job
  • Want
  • Career

• I'd love to drive a Bugatti - something totally ridiculous but super fast.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Drive
  • Ridiculous
  • Fast

• My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Live
  • Independent
  • Place

• This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Me
  • Person
  • Hell

• Call me crazy - I love elk meat!

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Crazy
  • Call
  • Meat

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Kind
  • Kid
  • Shy

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Unfortunately, when you're working in film, it's this huge machine, and you've got to get everyone right there, so you get kind of locked into things. I'm not sure where the artistry in film making is. It's usually that moment when you're on set and you're working with the actors. That's the time to play around, the moment of theater. And then you can shape things. But a lot of it is just managing stuff. It's upsetting because you get away from the core.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Moments

• Writing is how I metabolize life and how I give and receive.

  

  Crescent Dragonwagon
  • Life
  • Writing

• These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Why

• Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Feeling
  • Focus
  • Something