Art Alexakis Quotes
I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.
Quotes to Explore
-
We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
-
I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
-
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
-
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
-
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
-
I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
-
I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
-
We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
-
I was authorized to do everything that I did.
-
Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
-
When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
-
Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
-
You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
-
A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
-
The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
-
Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
-
Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
-
Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
-
I love New York: it reminds me a bit of London.
-
You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.
-
My first love of jazz came from joining the Chilliwack Middle School band - it was like an 18-piece jazz band, and I wanted to join just because the older kids looked like they were having so much fun.
-
My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.
-
Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
-
I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.
