Ben Schwartz Quotes

I really was interested in doing something for a premium channel like Showtime or HBO, just because you get to really let loose. I think they let their storylines go wherever they want, and it's really a special place to work.

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• How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Stand

• I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Own

• At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Me
  • Creativity

• The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Like
  • Slavery
  • Secrets

• A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • World
  • True
  • Friend

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• Race differences show up early in life.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Race

• Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Bad
  • City
  • Will

• Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • Goals

• After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Time
  • Think
  • Me

• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Being
  • Thing

• A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Time
  • Character
  • Man

• It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Political
  • Story
  • Loss

• The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • Power
  • Choose
  • Greatest

• Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

  

  Orson Welles
  • Genius
  • Denies

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Idea
  • Right
  • Performances

• Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

  

  Zendaya
  • Important
  • You
  • Just

• I simply believe that people who respect their customers and have faith in their own technology products should welcome competition and that consumer choice should be a paramount value in retailing.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Believe
  • Faith

• I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It's all me.

  

  Lia Ices
  • Wine
  • California

• It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law will not interfere to compel him. The master must do his own flogging, as in the case of an ox or a horse.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Law
  • Horse

• I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.

  

  Bill Walton
  • Work
  • Great

• I really was interested in doing something for a premium channel like Showtime or HBO, just because you get to really let loose. I think they let their storylines go wherever they want, and it's really a special place to work.

  

  Ben Schwartz
  • Work