Cory Monteith Quotes

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

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• I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Know
  • Will
  • Prepare

• Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Humanity

• I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Employ
  • Nobel

• I'm a little angry in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Little

• My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Start

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • People Say

• I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Long
  • Society
  • Exploring

• I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Walk

• Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Strong
  • Years
  • Through

• That's just a symbol of how you should deal with a breakup. You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it's like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Up
  • Music
  • Happy

• My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Want
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Always
  • Struggles
  • Screenwriting

• If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Game
  • Play
  • Ready

• Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Good
  • Very
  • Second

• Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Real
  • High

• In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.

  

  Karen Kain
  • World
  • Story
  • Ballet

• When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
  • First
  • Congress

• If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Face
  • Punishment

• The TV schedule is fantastic. It allows you to have a life. Theater actors are so disciplined - especially if you're doing musicals, you have to be in shape physically, mentally, and have to be on your game all the time. That's exhausting. On TV, especially a sitcom, you have a lot of free time to play.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Life
  • Time
  • Game

• When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.

  

  Matthew Ashford
  • Character

• High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study.

  

  Kyle Chandler
  • School
  • High
  • Interesting

• I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

  

  Cory Monteith
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  • Community
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