Kelly Wearstler Quotes
Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to make the work feel fresh.
Quotes to Explore
-
I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
-
I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
-
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
-
People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
-
I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
-
I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
-
There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
-
How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
-
Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
-
I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
-
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
-
What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
-
We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
-
I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
-
Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
-
One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
-
I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
-
I don't wear plaid shirts.
-
My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.
-
You know what I like about disposable razors? They're disposable.
-
It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.
-
A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.
-
No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
-
Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to make the work feel fresh.
