Connie Britton Quotes

Sometimes my favorite directors are the ones I literally want to punch in the nose.

Connie Britton

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• For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • People
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • World
  • Politics
  • Show

• For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Kid

• It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Always
  • Theatre
  • Scary

• There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Something
  • Pressure

• As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Truth

• Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Nature

• I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

  

  Jack London
  • Planet
  • Magnificent
  • Atom

• Travel teaches as much as books.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Travel
  • Books
  • Teaches

• I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.

  

  Imelda May
  • Way
  • Young
  • Started

• I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Time
  • Work
  • Pleasure

• Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Looking

• The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
  • Day
  • End

• So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • People
  • Politics
  • Literature

• There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Done
  • Opinion
  • Silence

• I think I'm a terrible researcher. I find it very boring and frustrating, but the things you can find are better than what I could imagine. And when you find them, it's wonderful, and they don't feel artificial.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer

• Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Body
  • Humans
  • Doe

• Growing up, I had body confidence issues, not really so much because of size but my skin color. I had trouble recognizing that the depth of my skin tone is really beautiful because whenever people referred to a beautiful black-skinned woman, you'd see Beyonce and Rihanna.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • People
  • Up
  • Beautiful

• All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination.

  

  Saul Bellow

• Sometimes my favorite directors are the ones I literally want to punch in the nose.

  

  Connie Britton