Ashley Leggat Quotes
I honestly don't know how many pairs of shoes I have - about 100 in use. It sounds so bad. I splurge when I work hard.
Quotes to Explore
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.
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Aging in Hollywood sucks. There's always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone's watching! I'd like to embrace getting older, because it's kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I'm supposed to look - it's a work in progress.
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The people who watch a movie like 'Wolf of Wall Street' and want to work on Wall Street are exactly the kind of people who shouldn't.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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I know guys. I know the way they think.
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I honestly don't know how many pairs of shoes I have - about 100 in use. It sounds so bad. I splurge when I work hard.
