Edward Burns Quotes

Spielberg gave us three takes before saying anything to us. Since then, I do that, three takes, to let the actors find their rhythm.

Edward Burns

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 29, 1968

Topics

SayingFindThreeRhythmAnything

Sometimes, when you look at an adviser's failings or perceived failings, I think the tough question you have to ask as a journalist is, 'What does this say about the president?'

Jodi Kantor

ToughThinkYouLookSometimesSay

Most tall golfers don't have a lot of success. You have trouble getting steep on the ball too much. Stance, posture, all those things can be bad.

Andrew Whitworth

SuccessYouBadToo MuchTrouble

My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be mysterious, weird, intriguing, and contain the seeds of the solution. The structure has to be meticulous - I'm a structure freak.

Sophie Hannah

SeedsStartImpossibleWeirdBody

When I was 10, I would only shop in the guys' section at the Gap.

Sofia Richie

OnlyGapWouldGuysSectionShop

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Tom Hodgkinson

BoredomYouSituationPleasureTurn

Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

Robert Boswell

FaithPeopleWritingNiceSeeStill

Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.

Robert Carlyle

CharacterMomentPerformanceLook

I don't know what it is that I do, but when I play a really bad guy, I'm able to bring some level of likability to it.

Miguel Ferrer

BadPlayKnowBad GuyBringGuy

What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.

Johnny Rivers

PeopleSmokingRememberBackTurn

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

Jon Meacham

FreeAmericanPoliticalSystemMake

As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.

Christina Romer

GrowthHistoryWinWorldAppreciate

I didn't want a desk job; I knew I'd get bored.

Christina Tosi

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