Adrian Grenier Quotes

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

Adrian Grenier

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• When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Conscience
  • Follow

• Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Time
  • Character
  • Leaving

• I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Time
  • God
  • Heart

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• Actor's life is very long.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Actor

• Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

  

  Xenophon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Escape

• Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Done
  • Today

• Sweet is good. I'm not a fan of deep-fried things.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Good
  • Things
  • Deep

• As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Proud
  • Very
  • Africa

• As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Meaningful
  • Authority
  • Him

• I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• When someone calls you 'gay,' there's not much you can do about that because I am. Whereas, if someone calls you fat, there is something you can do about that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Gay
  • Fat

• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Think
  • Taxes

• I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think that I have a really good understanding of how all the parts of the puzzle come together to make a film or TV show.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Good
  • Together
  • Parents

• We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Kind
  • Wall
  • Greatest

• There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up – the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • World
  • Science
  • Me

• Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shoes

• 'You drink wine, you have foreskins. These things have been observed.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Wine

• At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Age
  • Growing
  • Ambition

• People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

  

  James Wolcott
  • People
  • Power
  • Ambition

• I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • God
  • Country

• My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

  

  Adrian Grenier
  • Ambition