Adam Savage Quotes
Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
Quotes to Explore
-
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
-
You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
-
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
-
You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
-
The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.
-
Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
-
I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
-
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
-
Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
-
I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
-
Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
-
Creative people are more prone to depression.
-
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
-
I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.
-
It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
-
I have a good relationship with Lifetime.
-
I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.
-
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
-
Squash is my passion, and it is in my blood.
-
I was in a bookstore one afternoon, and I stumbled across this book called 'A Guide to Film Schools.' I always loved movies growing up and had never even conceived that it was something you could do for a living. Realizing most of them were in Los Angeles and knowing that was warm, I ended up applying.
-
Scientology always makes me think of that movie 'V' where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self.
-
I always love somebody who makes me laugh, who's fun to be with.
-
Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.
-
Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
