Colin Trevorrow Quotes

You get 12 years of childhood, give or take.

Colin Trevorrow

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• I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Immature

• Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • School
  • Future
  • Science

• To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Sometimes
  • Competitive

• Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Cancer
  • Jealousy
  • Mental

• One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Needs
  • Barbecue
  • DJ

• 'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thankful

• Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Time
  • Community
  • Period

• How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Long
  • Man
  • Legs

• The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Working

• Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Sometimes

• If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Want
  • Emotional
  • Audience

• A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Tree
  • Same
  • Alive

• As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • War
  • History
  • Democracy

• My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Book
  • Me
  • Mom

• I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll at FAO Schwartz when I was in high school. And I think that it's made me really disciplined when it came to pursuing acting, because I had no clue how to go about it.

  

  Cara Buono
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?

  

  Kajol
  • Why
  • Want
  • Yourself

• Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Bob Barker
  • People
  • Up
  • Truth

• ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.

  

  Don Nickles
  • Great
  • Future
  • Political

• I was asked to do a test commercial shoot for an Apple product which didn't mean much to me at the time. Some music player that holds all your songs. Sounded cool to me and I never gave up an opportunity to work, especially with the possibility of it turning into a national commercial. Coolest job I did in that time.

  

  Harry Shum, Jr.
  • Songs
  • Apple product
  • Music Player

• Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Childhood

• You get 12 years of childhood, give or take.

  

  Colin Trevorrow
  • Childhood