Matthew Modine Quotes

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

Matthew Modine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 22, 1959

Topics

LifeGoodFatherGreatBestMe

Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance.

Merce Cunningham

DanceThinkNeverMovementAbstract

The countries with the greatest problems have the kindest people.

Amanda Lindhout

PeopleProblemsGreatestCountries

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

Roz Chast

DepressionParentsCollegeBornPoor

I have seen incredible bravery from very young guys, the young generation that people write off.

Ross Kemp

PeopleGenerationYoungWriteSeen

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

Luciano Pavarotti

GoodThinkBetterI CanDoneAlways

In Bosnia, there are no 35mm cameras. There are no film labs.

Jasmila Zbanic

FilmBosniaLabsCameras

Miranda, my character, cannot sing, cannot act, and is really inappropriate.

Colleen Ballinger

CharacterActCannotSingReally

I always overwrite - really awful, long bits of script - and then I trim it down to the bare bones and then add a little bit to colour it in. At the end of all of my stories, I test for wordless comprehension. So I remove the text and see if it works by itself. And if it does, I feel that that's a successful story.

Shaun Tan

StoryEndFeelLongDownTest

Redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass - that's the sheer weight of living material - of, say, deep tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin.

Richard Preston

DeepSayLivingTropicalRedwood

As every successful parent learns, one way to encourage good behavior, from room-cleaning to tooth-brushing, is to make it fun. Not surprisingly, the same principle applies to adults. Adults like to have fun, too.

Richard Thaler

GoodFunHave FunParentBehavior

I went through a clubbing phase - then, I dunno, dude. The club scene in Jakarta sucks. It's rich kids and kids who are trying to look rich.

Rich Brian

RichTryingLookClubThroughKids

First, I was a glacial blonde doing music programmes. Then I was the film kind of sexy bird late at night. It was frustrating like I guess it's frustrating for everyone who is not fully employing their talents.

Mariella Frostrup

MusicBirdNightSexyBlondeDoing

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