Brantley Gilbert Quotes
For me, a show's a show. I try to put on the best show I can for whatever audience or time slot I get.
Quotes to Explore
-
I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
-
I voted for Barack Obama.
-
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
-
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
-
I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
-
I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.
-
Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
-
Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
-
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
-
We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
-
A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
-
One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
-
I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
-
Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
-
I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
-
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.
-
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
-
Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
-
I just love engaging a live audience - I love that.
-
I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.
-
I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
-
I felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.
-
For me, a show's a show. I try to put on the best show I can for whatever audience or time slot I get.
