Colin O'Donoghue Quotes
How do you try to play 'Captain Hook' better than, or as well as, Dustin Hoffman? You can't. It's perfection.
Quotes to Explore
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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I don't eat red meat.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I can't advocate people not liking each other. But... I'd prefer it.
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The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.
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Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?
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How do you try to play 'Captain Hook' better than, or as well as, Dustin Hoffman? You can't. It's perfection.
