Chrissy Metz (Christine Michelle Metz) Quotes

When you listen, as a human being and an actor, you can react authentically.

Chrissy Metz

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• I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • People
  • Together
  • Me

• Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Better
  • Performance
  • Mobile

• I'm one of those people who really liked high school. I know that might not be a popular thing to say, but it was fun, and I enjoyed my friends.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • School
  • Friends

• My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Kind
  • Actor
  • Going

• I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Love
  • May
  • Mother

• I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Children
  • Always
  • Selfish

• I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Music
  • School

• It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Good
  • Running
  • Style

• To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Understanding
  • Very
  • Totally

• No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Men
  • Women
  • High

• All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Friends
  • Actor
  • Said

• Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Reality
  • Stock

• It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Great
  • Success
  • Mistake

• Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women

• In times of old, as we are told, When men more child-like at the feet Of Jesus sat, than now, A chivalry was known more bold Than ours, and yet of stricter vow, Of worship more complete.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Men
  • Jesus
  • Bold

• One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Men

• Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Book
  • Movie

• There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and that was Eric also, what a little monster he was! - in a novel, even if I took it directly from life, it would be fiction.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Dog
  • Boys

• Ironically, it was only maybe a year prior to Tim calling I had re-read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and what I took away from it was these very strange, little cryptic nuggets that he'd thrown in there.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • Through the Looking Glass

• I do like Jason Statham as a person and as an actor. I think he's a great performer, and he delivers every time.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Time
  • Great

• One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Alone
  • Ideas

• When you listen, as a human being and an actor, you can react authentically.

  

  Chrissy Metz