Amy Seimetz Quotes

I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone.

Amy Seimetz

• Reality
• Funny
• Reading
• Comedy
• Trust
• Vision
• Drama

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• I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Job
  • Vacation
  • Restaurant

• Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Balance
  • Sweet
  • Cooking

• When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Find
  • Information
  • Blessing

• Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • Like
  • Religion

• The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Want
  • Clever

• The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Honest
  • Deserve
  • Colorado

• I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Confidence
  • Vision
  • Creativity

• With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • New
  • Eating

• I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Time
  • Peace
  • Military

• I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Cool

• By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Time
  • School
  • Left

• We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Week
  • Out

• We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Fear
  • Scary

• We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Men
  • Words
  • Happiness

• But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Blind
  • Computers

• My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Mother
  • Dad
  • Personality

• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • History
  • Sometimes

• If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • God
  • Words

• God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.

  

  Andy Stanley
  • God
  • Planning

• I'm not doing 'Once' to prove that I'm worldly or cultured. I just love the role.

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • Role
  • Prove
  • Once

• Stereotyped as convention-going, pocket-protector-wearing, chess-playing, infrequently-showering types, nerds are one of our society's most ridiculed groups. And, for a university with an international reputation as a bastion of intellectualism, Harvard is startlingly devoid of them.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Society
  • Chess

• I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

  

  David Hockney
  • Work

• Artists know they need to have digital presences to build and bolster their fan base, and fans have exploited that fact.

  

  Elizabeth Flock

• I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone.

  

  Amy Seimetz
  • Reality
  • Funny
  • Reading