Angela Robinson Quotes
Playing the villain, bringing her to life, is the most fun because there really are no rules.
Quotes to Explore
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
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I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
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The most important thing to keep in mind is the incredible diversity of talent that's out there - there are so many great actors from all over Asia, from Singapore and Hong Kong to the Philippines and Mainland China, not to mention many great Asian-American actors who are eager for fun and challenging roles.
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I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.
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You think education is something to be done when all else fails?
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Playing the villain, bringing her to life, is the most fun because there really are no rules.
