Top 38 Aidan Quinn Quotes
#1. It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
Heraclitus
#2. Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.
Aidan Quinn
#3. I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don't get offered.
Aidan Quinn
#4. Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Honore De Balzac
#5. There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.
Jose Bergamin
#6. You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.
Aidan Quinn
#7. Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.
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#8. I get to do interesting roles and make a living.
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#9. I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.
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#10. I'd sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m.
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#11. I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.
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#13. Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.
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#14. There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.
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#15. I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.
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#16. I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on several occasions.
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#18. I'm not particularly a career-oriented guy. I'm lucky. I can make really interesting films much of the time with interesting people yet be anonymous, have a private life. But, I'd like to have the choice of the better roles.
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#19. Money is just something to be circulated.
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#20. Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.
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#21. Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.
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#22. I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school, it doesn't mean you can't go big.
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#23. I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.
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#24. There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.
Aidan Quinn
#25. How old are you?" the woman asked. "You look about eleven." "Twenty-four," Mae said. "My god. You don't have a mark on you. Were we ever twenty-four, my love?" She turned to the man, who was using a ballpoint pen to scratch the arch of his foot. He shrugged, and the woman let the matter drop.
Dave Eggers
#26. I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life
toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things
and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict.
Greer Garson
#27. Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
Abdolkarim Soroush
#28. Keeping a secret isn't the same as being a liar.
Suzanne Young
#29. I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself.
Aidan Quinn
#30. The family is where most of our joy comes from.
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#31. My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
Barbara Kingsolver
#32. I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.
Aidan Quinn
#34. I told myself that if I ever make it to the big leagues that I would be the one to appreciate the fans. Take a little time out to sign autographs and shake their hands and say hello to them.
Rickey Henderson
#35. I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.
Aidan Quinn
#36. Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview - they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It's very smart, but it's so planned. I never think to do that.
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#37. I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.
Aidan Quinn
#38. You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.
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