Patrick J. Adams Quotes

I was fired from an NBC sitcom called 'Friends With Benefits.' I was wrong for the part from the beginning, didn't even want to audition, and kept thinking, 'This isn't funny at all.'

Patrick J. Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: August 27, 1981

Topics

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It's been fascinating working on a set in New York. Just to be in the thick of it is really interesting, because on any given day you're having to react to what New York is offering, if that's a thunderstorm or blocked traffic or a bunch of noise.

Jessica Collins

DayNew YorkInterestingYouNew

In modeling, because you're the center of attention, it builds up people's egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too.

Andie MacDowell

PeopleRealityAttentionLoseActing

If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.

Robert Pattinson

WarPeopleChaosYouKnowSometimes

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

LifeGoodLife Is APlayActThird

I'm all about the crossover. The role doesn't necessarily have to be white or Latina or black. It could be anything. But it's hard in Hollywood, because sometimes it's all about the box office. Or all about looks and things like that. It's not about the story that they have to tell.

Rutina Wesley

StoryBlackWhiteLooksSometimes

I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money.

Roy Thomson

MoneyMoreBuyMakeNewspapers

Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

GoodStarsHideActingAfraidWhole

I am inspired by Nelson Mandela. I was a volunteer teacher in South Africa during apartheid, where I witnessed his success liberating black South Africans.

Lisa Madigan

SuccessTeacherI AmBlackAfrica

Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone store - giving Apple control over everything people put on to the devices they thought they owned.

Douglas Rushkoff

PeopleControlThoughtGivingApple

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

Bob Woodward

GovernmentAccountabilityDoneMore

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

Bryant H. McGill

HappinessWildConsumerismThrough

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

Bruce Dern

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