Connie Britton Quotes

I feel like 'Nashville' can go on indefinitely.

Connie Britton

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• Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Long
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Character
  • Job

• I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Never
  • Mission
  • Pilot

• There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Up
  • Important
  • Decision

• The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Believe
  • True
  • Word

• Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Know
  • Religion
  • Politics

• Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Man
  • Technology
  • Apple

• Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Done
  • Passion
  • Beginning

• Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Never
  • Wear
  • Jeans

• Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Good
  • Famous
  • Just Because

• There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Love
  • Food
  • Justice

• You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • You
  • Cancer
  • Actually

• It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Ride

• Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Action
  • Behavior
  • Theory

• There are two things that will blemish a retainer, and these are riches and honor. If one but remains in strained circumstances, he will not be marred.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Honor

• Ignorance in certain places frightens me. The political situation of the world frightens me. Political anger around the globe frightens me. The lack of love in the world frightens me. Violence frightens me.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • World
  • Political
  • Violence

• The Anarchists believe in civil society; only they insist that the freedom of civil society shall be complete instead of partial.

  

  Benjamin Tucker
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Freedom

• Those audiences are my critics. They tell me right away! I learnt very early on how far I can go, what I can and can’t say on stage. They inspire the stories that I tell, and how I tell them. It has to be something that the core can relate to. And what I’m finding is that if you serve the core, it grows, and you find a whole new audience.

  

  Tyler Perry

• These changes-the more rapid pulse, the deeper breathing, the increase of sugar in the blood, the secretion from the adrenal glands-were very diverse and seemed unrelated. Then, one wakeful night, after a considerable collection of these changes had been disclosed, the idea flashed through my mind that they could be nicely integrated if conceived as bodily preparations for supreme effort in flight or in fighting. Further investigation added to the collection and confirmed the general scheme suggested by the hunch.

  

  Walter Bradford Cannon
  • Science
  • Fighting
  • Preparation

• I go for my shots with no regrets, even if I play to the fence.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Fence

• Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work … to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.

  

  John Muir
  • Work
  • Help
  • Humanity

• I've known from a very early age that singing was what I was supposed to do. There was this unmistaken, undeniable passion within me to sing country music.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Music
  • Country
  • Age

• A decade and a half after victory in the Cold War and end-of-history triumphalism, the 'what do you leave behind' question is more urgent than most of us expected. The Western world, as a concept, is dead and the West, as a matter of demographic fact, is dying.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • World
  • War
  • History

• I feel like 'Nashville' can go on indefinitely.

  

  Connie Britton