Ben Brantley Quotes

Whether you like it or not, a performance's triumphs and belly flops come to seem excruciatingly intimate, as if you were somehow partly responsible for them.

Ben Brantley

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PerformanceYouResponsibleSeem

As I've gotten older, I've become much more effective at seeking and accepting help and bringing other people into the discussion. You start to understand that you can't control or fix everything on your own.

Joanna Coles

PeopleControlStartHelpYouFix

Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.

John Burroughs

LoveFearIntelligenceManAnimals

I always prefer shooting on locations, because when I'm at home, it's harder to sort of get lost in the world of whatever you're making.

Max Minghella

HomeWorldYouLostAlwaysWhatever

Sometimes it does me good to look back at the days when the living wasn't so good. I remember in 1945 the dressing-rooms were gone, the park was in ruins, no stand, nothing.

Matt Busby

GoodMeStandRememberLookBack

Well, first of all, let's go right to it. We're going to balance the budget. We should live within our own means, and we should read the bills and work with the American people.

Jeff Sessions

WorkLiveBalancePeopleAmerican

I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.

Trey Parker

HopeMeSayWantSeriouslyBecome

I can go 0-for-5, I can go 5-for-5, I'm going to be the same guy. I'm a happy guy, people have to deal with it.

Jose Reyes

HappyPeopleI CanGoSameGoing

Movies usually find me, but I'm open to anything.

Dennis Quaid

MeFindMoviesOpenAnything

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'

CJ Adams

CharacterGreenYouActingBecome

Respectability? Who wants to be respectable? That's spoken like a true loser.

Chuck Noll

LoserTrueWhoLikeWantsSpoken

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

Sean Penn

LoveSmartPeopleDoingEnoughHelp

The Europeans waited so long that they are impacting people who depend on their pensions. We are still early enough to fix it for the next generation. A few states have started scaling back their programs, while others have come hat in hand for billion-dollar federal bailouts.

Tim Griffin

HatPeopleGenerationEnoughEarly

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