Andrew Stanton Quotes

I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

Andrew Stanton

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• My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't know he could act. I saw that, and I said, 'Wow. I want to be just like him.'

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Know

• Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• I almost can't believe this even needs to be said, but it's not unwarranted to burden retirement advisers with a requirement that they act in their clients' best interest.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Retirement

• There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Stronger

• The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• He plants trees to benefit another generation.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • Trees
  • Plants
  • Gardening

• It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • Said
  • Eating
  • Too Much

• The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Future
  • Lost

• It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Naive

• They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Me
  • Used
  • Photograph

• I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Love
  • Struggle

• Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • People
  • Truth
  • Myself

• I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Think
  • Young
  • Dislike

• Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Work
  • Truth

• There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Long
  • Passion

• I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Human Nature

• Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Party
  • Never
  • Friendship

• I think Darth Maul has been on a vicious cycle, he's been on a merry go round. In some way he's begging for Obi-Wan Kenobi to take him off that ride.

  

  Samuel Witwer
  • Thinking
  • Begging

• I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of the British and the Arabs. I was skeptical, as I read over the whole record up to date, about some of the views and attitudes assumed by the 'striped-pants boys' in the State Department.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • History
  • Question
  • Balfour Declaration

• We tour, we do the distance from friends and family, not really knowing how to connect with people on the same level. I've understood now, as much as we tour, we live day-to-day, so our lives are much different than the people who stay at home and go home every night.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• It is true that we do not recognize greatness among us. Our measurements of importance are generally faulty and speak mainly to the superficialities of life, e.g., where one lives, the type of clothing one wears, the cars one drives, to the number of bodyguards that one employs to carry bags and open and close doors.

  

  Haki R. Madhubuti
  • Life
  • True
  • Greatness

• The more I make stuff, the more I become aware of when I feel like I'm making bullshit or feel like I'm making something I can stand behind.

  

  D.A. Wallach
  • Feels
  • Stuff
  • Bullshit

• I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

  

  Andrew Stanton