Adam Scott Quotes
My brother really shaped my musical taste when I was younger. He turned me on to classic rock like Led Zeppelin, and then he got me into R.E.M. and U2.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
-
I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.
-
Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
-
I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
-
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
-
Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
-
With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
-
There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
-
I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
-
You get some directors, and I can never understand it - there's a thing they call the 'video village' where all the monitors are, and you've probably seen it on set visits - I hate that! I never, ever like sitting in video village. I get either my own monitor or a hand held monitor, and I stand right by the camera.
-
I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
-
Executives are waking up to realize that they can do a lot better, save money, make better decisions if they optimize and start thinking geographically and have a location strategy.
-
We have a good time and try not to kill each other.
-
When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
-
When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.
-
The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.
-
I'd never been around or seen a black showrunner, and in some ways you wish that it wasn't a big deal.
-
The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material - steel - is not really a commodities engineering steel.
-
There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.
-
Can dancing change your life? Yes. It's changed mine. What I've learned is, it's not about how good you are technically. It's about your soul coming through. It's about having fun.
-
I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
-
Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
-
I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.
-
My brother really shaped my musical taste when I was younger. He turned me on to classic rock like Led Zeppelin, and then he got me into R.E.M. and U2.
