“I never listen to what people tell me and I can't read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it's wrong. If I feel good, it's right.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 213 of 303
“I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.”
“Honestly...how did I do as a big sister?”
“One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period.”
“There have been times when I've been asked to do things and I've thought, "This is great! This is a great script. But, I do not believe myself in this role." I pretend I'm the producer and I think, "If I was making this movie, would I cast myself in this part?," and if that doesn't feel right to me, then I don't even go audition for it.”
“I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.”
“I don't have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too many bad guy faces and not ever try to seem too good. I just try to put it in the middle somewhere.”
“To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?”
“I'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people.”
“The only way to keep a show alive is to stay loyal to your fans and not betray them creatively or ignore them when it comes to extra content. I'm on Twitter because I'm trying to answer their questions.”
“In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.”
“Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.”
“There's a lot of social input when you put these things out there. People's ideas cross with other people's thoughts.”
“I think of Twitter as a messaging system that you didn't know you needed until you had it. Think about when cell phones first started coming out. People said, "Why would I carry my phone around?" And now you'll drive back to your house thirty miles if you forget your cell phone.”
“I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.”
“People are watching TV, they're watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there's a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.”
“A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.”
“I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go? I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don't know how it shapes up exactly. I don't think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.”
“When a plane lands in the Hudson and there's a Twitter user on the ferry taking a picture of it, Boom. That's it. The water is still splashing. Here's the photo of the thing.”
“With Twitter, it's as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.”