Dacre Montgomery Quotes

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

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• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Believe
  • True
  • Same

• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Morals

• I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Time
  • Famous
  • Creative

• I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Brave

• It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Live
  • Home
  • Child

• Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Infrastructure
  • Kenya

• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Know
  • Always
  • Try

• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Technology

• Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Home
  • Independent
  • Television

• Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.

  

  FKA twigs
  • World
  • Real
  • Racism

• I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Successful
  • Run
  • Content

• Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Think
  • Know
  • Never

• I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Choose
  • Now
  • Classical

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Way
  • New

• People who know me, love me. People who don't know me love me too... or they hate me.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • People
  • Hate

• If you saw a better idea or business anywhere in the world, and you could reapply it legally and ethically and with attribution, you were supposed to do that. And I used that learning in building Cold Stone.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • World
  • Business
  • Learning

• I don't do the same food in Tokyo that I do in Vegas and vice versa. If I did that, two weeks later I would have no customers.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Food
  • Vegas

• I don't know if you've been in any inner-city schools, but it's pretty demoralizing. The kids come to class bright-eyed, enthusiastic - entering first grade really looking forward to school. By the fourth grade they're just completely turned off, and by the time they enter high school, they see little relationship between school and employment. It's bad enough you have incompetent teachers and schools that are poorly run, understaffed, and lack material resources. It's even worse when the kids themselves don't feel they have any stake in school.

  

  William Julius Wilson
  • School
  • Kids
  • Running

• As young kids, we had a lot of tenacity. Life was tough at home, so it was easy to go out in the world and try.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Tenacity

• 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