Gary Ross Quotes

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

Gary Ross

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeYouEverythingOutThingsDull

I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare play.

Jimmy Smits

LovePlayOutStartedFilmTheater

Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

Andra Day

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I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

Michael Emerson

MyselfBestThinkHelpGoWant

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Mia Hamm

FailureTimeDayPracticeBetter

I dress pop stars, and I dress my doctor. It's about attitude. I do what I love, and I'm lucky to do it. It's a long way from Hong Kong.

John Rocha

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I always chose the byline.

Amy Chozick

AlwaysChose

I don't deviate - once you get validated for being you, I don't know why you would deviate. I stick to my gut and my taste.

Russ

YouKnowWhyTasteGutStick

I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy from Deptford who was worshipped by all my rellies. Everybody in my extended family helped to raise me, and I realise now how lucky I was to grow up among kind folk.

Jools Holland

FamilyParentsPeopleMeGrowMeet

I can't step outside my house now - everybody knows my face.

Desiigner

StepFaceHouseNowOutsideKnows

I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

Boris Trajkovski

AngerI AmSucceedReadyAcceptAm

You spend your life having lessons, practising and competing as an amateur, and working during the day. As you get to the top end of the amateur field, you try not to work anymore; you earn your living through dancing, maybe by doing a bit of teaching. It's an ongoing life's work.

Anton du Beke

LifeWorkDayEndDoingYou

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

Anne Tyler

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