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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Count
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- Nov 07, 2020
In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.
- Gang
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife's a loving, funny, Irish-spirited person, and I'm still surprised at some of the things she says. She makes me laugh every day.
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
- Nov 07, 2020
The surface is all you get of me.
- Reflection
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous and fluid and feels like a pool. It's highly reflective, which means there are layers of looking. You look at the picture, and you look at the surface, then you look at the reflection in the surface behind you, then you look at yourself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020