Bill Paxton Quotes

My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'

Bill Paxton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 17, 1955 - February 25, 2017

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ArtBlackBadFirstMamaBig

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

Jerry Bruckheimer

FailureFearMeDrivesDefinitely

The bottom line is that the impacts of climate change can exacerbate resource competition, threaten livelihoods, and increase the risk of instability and conflict, especially in places already undergoing economic, political, and social stress.

John F. Kerry

ChangeStressCompetitionConflict

I learned that the best way to work is to allow the scene to live on its own before making major adjustments, whether in rehearsal or on film.

John Krasinski

WorkLiveBestWayOwnFilm

If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

John Lewis Gaddis

PowerGreatPeopleWorldRestRight

I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. If I wanted to learn somebody's stuff, like with Clapton, when I wanted to learn how he was getting some of his sounds - which were real neat - I learned how to make the sounds with my mouth and then copied that with my guitar.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

PeopleListeningGuitarLearnMouth

Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements.

Trombone Shorty

MusicBornNewWillNew Orleans

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

Mary Astell

ReflectionServiceYouSeriousGlass

All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.

Judd Apatow

MeetMy OwnInsightJokesAnything

I want to win every single tournament that I'm playing in.

Jason Day

WinWantSinglePlayingTournament

I don't want to be on a soapbox, but I feel like a lot of documentary filmmakers are part of the ancient tradition of writing down notes, of saying, 'Hey people, hey people!'

Debra Granik

PeopleWritingSayingFeelDown

I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

Dean Ween

SeaDayFishingSchoolMeRoad

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Claude Debussy

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