Bankable Quotes

#1. There's a cumulative effect to getting good parts as a freelance actor, because you're only as good as your last job, and you have to keep going out and getting them. Unless you're part of the finance structure, by which I mean a bankable star, which I never was and never will be.

Bruce McGill

#2. I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

Spike Lee

#3. Building on a bond is bankable. Building on bitterness is bankrupt.

T.F. Hodge

#4. I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

Edgar Allan Poe

#5. People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America.

Peter Coyote

#6. Because of the success of 'Hamilton' and 'On Your Feet!' you can't hide behind the old argument of, 'It needs to be bankable, so we can't put all these people of color in the show.' We are bankable.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#7. There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is 'Zodiac,' and that didn't perform that well.

Chloe Sevigny

#8. I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

Laura Linney

#9. Throughout the ages, effective results in war have rarely been attained unless the
approach has had such indirectness as to ensure the opponent's unreadyness to meet it.
The indirectness has usually been physical, and always psychological.

Liddell Hart

#10. Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

Richard Leakey

#11. I'm very fond of the British cinema. I'm a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I actually find Daniel very inspirational, especially on the physical side of things. He really inspired me to get back into shape when I started to add on a few pounds. I think he's a great role model.

Steven Bauer

#12. There's no greater feeling than winning a race.

Jeff Gordon

#13. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Alexander Pope

#14. We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

Dalai Lama

#15. Out-of-date theories are not in principle unscientific because they have been discarded. That

Thomas S. Kuhn

#16. But if this works-if I pass, I need to know that when you look at me, you're going to see me, not just her replacement. That there is more in this future for me than standing in the shadows while you wallow the rest of your existence away.

Aimee Carter

#17. Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves.

John C. Maxwell

#18. I do think on some basic level we are animals and by instinct we kind of breed accordingly. But, as much as I believe that, I work really hard when I'm in a relationship to make it work in a monogamous way.

Scarlett Johansson

#19. Bowed down by greif,
I had resolved
To be moved no more-
But tears, it seems,
Are not like minds.

Joseph K. Yamagiwa

#20. When you take the right stairs you will arrive at the precise destination.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.

Timothy Keller

#22. The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as an effort to move certain kinds of psychological distress into the biomedical realm.

Carl Elliott

#23. Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human oppressors, but also against their ancient enemies-hunger, misery, and despair.

Harry S. Truman