Ben Platt Quotes

I had a 'Cats' phase, where I did lots of overturned furniture and trash cans. I asked for a fog machine for my birthday.

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• When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Song
  • Myself

• I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Good
  • Car

• I want to see as many black professionals as possible.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Want
  • Black
  • See

• As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Kids
  • Desire

• I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Strong
  • Honor
  • Sense

• I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • God
  • Friends
  • Night

• I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Taken
  • Make
  • Sure

• It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Nice
  • Wall

• I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.

  

  Adam McKay
  • American
  • Culture
  • Doubt

• The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Lifestyle
  • Spotlight
  • Footballer

• There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Time
  • Just
  • Boots

• Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Brainy

• I am committed to helping Alzheimer's Society in any way I can. My family and I rely on the help of organisations like Alzheimer's Society to help us understand the disease and guide us in the care of my grandmother. It's been a privilege to meet so many people with dementia.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • People
  • Family
  • Help

• I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Woman
  • Military
  • Affair

• 'Never Forget You' was the first song I co-wrote.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Song
  • Forget
  • Never Forget

• I think for me, personally, I'm a guy who has watched ESPN ever since I've been growing up. You turn it on, and it's one of the first stories - the Blackhawks and hockey, which you don't really see on that station. That's cool to see.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Growing

• I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Kid

• Terrorists who try to sow chaos, they must be met with force and they must also be met, though, with a forceful commitment to uphold the rule of law, and respect for human rights, and to treat everybody who’s peaceful and law-abiding fairly and equally.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Respect
  • Commitment

• I am a very simple guy. Of course, popularity matters a lot, but for me, my health and family come first.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Health

• The moon came white and ghostly as we laid the treasure down,There was gear there’d make a beggarman as rich as Lima Town,Copper charms and silver trinkets from the chests of Spanish crews,Gold doubloons and double moidores, louis d’ors and portagues

  

  John Masefield
  • Gold
  • Moon
  • Spanish

• I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• I don't like to get things during the year, .. I like to wait for my birthday or Christmas. I may see something that I'll say, 'I'd really like that for my birthday.' I like to have things to look forward to.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • May
  • Waiting
  • Years

• The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Guitar
  • Birthday

• I had a 'Cats' phase, where I did lots of overturned furniture and trash cans. I asked for a fog machine for my birthday.

  

  Ben Platt
  • Birthday