Craig T. Nelson Quotes
No one is accountable anymore for anything. No one did anything wrong. Well, you're to blame. That's to blame. This is to blame.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
-
I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
-
The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
-
After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
-
I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
-
Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
-
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
-
Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.
-
History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
-
I'd love to be able to dance like Madhuri Dixit.
-
I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
-
The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
-
Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
-
People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
-
Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.
-
Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.
-
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.
-
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
-
I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete's foot fungus infections as a kid. I may be able to change socks less frequently and not get the fungus. But, I'd rather not run the test to determine just how infrequently I could change socks. I don't feel superstitious about it.
-
Wherever there is greater joy, there is the direction of everyone’s activity, because the innermost of everyone is really the lighted lamp of Total Knowledge, total organising power of knowledge, it’s all bliss, it’s not necessary for the people to suffer.
-
I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.
-
I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
-
Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.
-
No one is accountable anymore for anything. No one did anything wrong. Well, you're to blame. That's to blame. This is to blame.
