Brian Helgeland Quotes

I don't really write with living actors in mind. I guess I write for dead actors. I'll think of like, you know, Burt Lancaster would be good in this part, and so on. With 'L.A. Confidential,' it was like, 'Wouldn't it be cool if Dean Martin played the Kevin Spacey part?'

Brian Helgeland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 17, 1961

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In order to grow emotionally and mentally, sometimes you have to grow physically as well. I'm just trying to grow, man, and always I just want to be the best and most confident me I can be.

Jill Scott

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Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.

John Heywood

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After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

Sue Grafton

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Over the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends.

Joshua Bell

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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

Douglas Coupland

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You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.

Chris Hadfield

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There's something about my Mexican-American heritage... I'm proud of it.

Christian Camargo

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Kurt Vonnegut said, 'The best of Bob and Ray is virtually indistinguishable from the worst.' I'm sure he meant that as a compliment.

Bob Elliott

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I was a big comic, cartoon, animation nerd.

Winston Duke

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If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

William Shakespeare

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Being a Jehovah's Witness, I don't celebrate birthdays or holidays. I don't vote.

Prince

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If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.

Scott Spencer

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