Mackenzie Astin Quotes
When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
Quotes to Explore
-
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
-
I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
-
Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
-
Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
-
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
-
What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.
-
As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
-
I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
-
My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
-
I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
-
When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
-
Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
-
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
-
Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
-
I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
-
I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
-
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
-
It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.
-
I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.
-
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
-
Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.
-
When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
-
When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
