Gary Ross Quotes

People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.

Gary Ross

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 3, 1956

Topics

WorkPeopleWantActorTeethStar

When my girl do better than me, I still win. When I do better than her, she still wins.

Meek Mill

GirlMeWinBetterSheHer

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.

Jeanne Moreau

FearMyselfFireCameraActingTwo

We all have our opinions. But I suspect that writers are actually less worth heeding, because they regard themselves as so uniquely important, so culturally sensitive.

Simon Hoggart

OpinionsWorthImportantSensitive

My fellow band members don't discuss their loved ones, and I don't feel that just because I am gay, I should have to discuss mine!

Jonathan Knight

I AmLovedFeelGayJust Because

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.

Bruce Jackson

DailyTimePeopleSmallGivingTell

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

Annie Parisse

I AmWayPhotographerPaintArtsAm

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

William Hazlitt

PainMoreDestructionLittleUsOur

Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves.

Svetlana Alexievich

LifeNothingMoreHumanHuman Life

I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?

Peter Berg

ChallengeIdeasFightingFirstUp

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Richard Whately

FollowJudgmentOrderOwnTraditions

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

Richard Engel

WarSyriaFightersManyForeign

I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.

Richard Carmona

GoodIdeasYouDoneCivilityMatter

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