Chandra West Quotes
I think to describe 'The Gates' as a genre show is tricky because when you think of what's a vampire show or what's a supernatural kind of thing, I think other shows... maybe focus on that element probably slightly more than our show does.
Quotes to Explore
-
You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
-
I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
-
It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
-
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
-
I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
-
Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
-
I like to give people more than their money's worth.
-
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
-
The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
-
I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
-
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
-
I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
-
But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
-
I do not like violence.
-
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
-
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
-
I call myself a constitutional conservative.
-
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
-
Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the reverse - though it isn't.
-
I don't really have a pattern yet. I don't know if I'll develop one. As far as comedic integrity, I don't have integrity in general, comedic or otherwise.
-
In so far as men believed that the traditional ceremonial was what God wanted of them, they would be indifferent to the reformation of social ethics. If the hydraulic force of religion could be turned toward conduct, there is nothing which it could not accomplish.
-
I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.
-
I think to describe 'The Gates' as a genre show is tricky because when you think of what's a vampire show or what's a supernatural kind of thing, I think other shows... maybe focus on that element probably slightly more than our show does.
