Michael Pena Quotes

I've been an actor for 20 years, and I think the first 14 years, it was all struggling. At first, it was all gangsters.

Michael Pena

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 13, 1976

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ThinkActorFirstYearsBeen

For me, fiction isn't very cathartic. It can be a broad, long catharsis, but it's a whole different thing - whereas music is physical. Essentially, it goes in through your ear. Fiction is cerebral, necessarily. It can do emotional stuff. But they don't really compare - not for me.

John Darnielle

MusicMeLongEmotionalFiction

I learned a valuable lesson doing 'Mr. Sunshine,' which is that I didn't want to be in charge because it's too much. Being in charge and acting in every scene was just too difficult. It's like eating dinner in a moving golf cart every night.

Matthew Perry

SunshineDinnerMovingNightEating

As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple doesn't make blenders. There's a reason Haagen-Dazs doesn't sell meat. And there's a reason drug companies should focus on saving and improving lives - not jeopardizing them.

Jeffrey Kluger

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Paying extra for prime placement can often pay off.

John Quelch

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I don't talk about my boyfriend because it's boring.

Suki Waterhouse

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I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.

Tom Stoppard

WorkMyselfMeThinkLookWay

If you're satisfied with your social life, according to psychologists, you tend to be satisfied with life in general.

Robin Marantz Henig

LifeYouSatisfiedSocial LifeYour

No one except Hollywood stars and very rich Texans wore Indian jewelry. And there was a plethora of dozens if not hundreds of athletic teams that in essence were insulting us, from grade schools to college. That's all changed.

Russell Means

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I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Lukas Foss

ScienceArtDareKnowEmotionOrder

I'm glad to have grown up in the countryside and played, and had to use my imagination rather than a TV and had to learn to act the hard way, to have dealt with the rejection. It's a life as well as a job, at the end the day, we all have to work for a living, but we have to have a life as well.

Jason Clarke

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I was never into the boy crazy thing because I was very focused on my career.

Christina Aguilera

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Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

Brian Behlendorf

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