#own

So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor. ↗

— Christian Bale

#actor #because #confident #director #everything

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not. ↗

— Christian Bale

#actor #actually #audience #convince #creating

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#cars #children #deaths #elegant #fear

Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#almost #armstrong #before #buzz #enter

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#better #country #fifty #fifty percent #jurisdiction

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#own #parents #passion #teachers #your

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it. ↗

— Carl T. Rowan

#ask #because #been #before #believe

I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#honestly #i #life #my life #never

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#around #coherent #creating #grown #half-million

I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them. ↗

— Willie Aames

#down #hurt #i #jesus #jesus christ