Kelly Marie Tran Quotes
I didn't know there was this sort of immediate camaraderie that's very intense when you make a movie because you're all in this together. You tend to get really close to people really fast.
Quotes to Explore
-
I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
-
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
-
I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
-
I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
-
My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
-
When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
-
The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
-
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
-
When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
-
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
-
I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
-
I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
-
You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
-
How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
-
I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
-
We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
-
I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
-
Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
-
This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
-
I live for watching TV and partying with my book club.
-
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
-
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
-
Tax reform for the 21st century means rewarding hardworking families by closing unfair loopholes, lowering tax rates across the board, and simplifying the tax code dramatically. It demands reducing the tax burden on American businesses of all sizes so they can keep more of their income to invest in our communities.
-
I didn't know there was this sort of immediate camaraderie that's very intense when you make a movie because you're all in this together. You tend to get really close to people really fast.
