Mackenzie Astin Quotes

You never get every job you want.

Mackenzie Astin

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• The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Live
  • Me
  • Star

• My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Dream
  • Year
  • Jazz

• I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Quirky

• We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Poetry
  • Need
  • Mine

• I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Play

• I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Son

• I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Girl
  • Know
  • Normal

• I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Thought
  • Bible
  • Saying

• There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm very kinesthetic, and when you're that way, you just feel it in your body. I know that other actors think with the logical part of their brain, but I wear my character inside my body, even when I'm away from the set.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Character
  • Brain
  • Body

• A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Children
  • America
  • House

• When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • School
  • Home
  • Friends

• I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Love
  • Character
  • Find

• The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Business
  • Me
  • Entertainment

• In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Fact
  • Analysis
  • Superpower

• I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.

  

  Jack Welch
  • World
  • Money
  • Confidence

• Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Leaving
  • Going
  • Bee

• I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Always
  • Frustration
  • Encouraging

• I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Want
  • Die
  • Identity

• I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Sometimes
  • Angry
  • Perception

• I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

  

  Babette March
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Just

• You never get every job you want.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Job
  • Want
  • You