George Newbern Quotes

When I first came to L.A., I was plotting out my career choices as if I actually had a choice. Unless you're Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, impossibly good-looking, or look like a freak, you have to be malleable and open to everything that comes your way because that's what makes it possible to pay your mortgage and eat.

George Newbern

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 30, 1964

Topics

ChoicesYouLookCareerChoiceWay

We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.

Jena Malone

FamilyFoundationFeelPlaceSafe

If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.

Tom Lehrer

PersonShut UpUpShutCommunicate

It's a good time for me, but it's only recently I've become comfortable in my job. At the start, it's hard having the nerve to call yourself an actor, let alone doing it. I gave myself two years after drama school, and if I didn't make it, then I'd give it up.

Ruth Wilson

GoodAloneTimeMyselfJobYourself

Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.

Mikhail Bulgakov

NightStoryShortTrainNewspaper

The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.

Mini Grey

GreatMoneyImaginationPictureYou

Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.

Jose Manuel Barroso

LifeGreatWorldAdmireSwitzerland

When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions.

Chris Riddell

WorkArtSchoolSearchSometimes

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

Susan Orlean

QualityWorldRestPerfectFour

But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.

Perry Como

TodayI AmFeelGenuineAffection

It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.

Richard Rogers

WorkInterestingBornWayGoing

Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.

Mariska Hargitay

LifeGoodCultureAppreciation

People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to 'graphic novel' and that disappears.

Marjane Satrapi

ChangeManPeopleThinkYouSay

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