Chris Lowell Quotes

#1. I remember the first time I fell in love. That rush is just overwhelming and you don't think there's ever going to be anything like it.

Chris Lowell

#2. I can say with great confidence that I was much more critical of the people I knew than of the people I didn't. Just because I know what they're capable of, so the bar is set so much higher for them - unfairly, frankly.

Chris Lowell

#3. I had managers approaching me in high school asking me if I wanted to act professionally, but to me, having to miss school to do that meant missing time with my friends, which was completely unacceptable.

Chris Lowell

#4. No one else in my family is an actor or aspires to be, and most of my friends aren't actors. Most of my friends are the people that I grew up with back in Georgia. It's really helpful to be surrounded by a world that's bigger than the entertainment industry.

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#5. I learned so much about being an actor by being a director. More than I ever thought I would.

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#6. Passion. That's it. When you believe in what you're doing, that's it.

Dov Charney

#7. I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can't help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I still shoot black-and-white film. And I am constantly reminiscing about the 'good old days.' I'm 28 years old. There haven't even been that many 'good old days.' But still, I love to look back.

Chris Lowell

#8. I always used to associate good directors as being ones who are totally extreme and have an answer for everything and there are no loose ends.

Chris Lowell

#9. If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

Tupac Shakur

#10. Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)

Jacqueline Briskin

#11. Imagination is the greatest nation in the world!

Bob Proctor

#12. In 'The Big Chill,' those characters are in middle age, thinking, 'Oh, God, I've turned into my parents. I've failed.' And in 'Beside Still Waters,' we're showing the struggles of people who actually want to be like their parents and feel they can't live up to their heights.

Chris Lowell

#13. I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.

Chris Lowell

#14. I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.

Chris Lowell

#15. In all things in life, boldness is rewarded, and cowardice is ignored.

Aziz Gazipura

#16. The pronunciation of both Sami and Portuguese languages is strikingly similar: the Portuguese evolved from folksy Latin while the Sami evolved from reindeers' howling.

Arto Paasilinna

#17. She is reading Zen, Krishnamurti, and Jung, asking herself questions she has never had the courage to explore. Suddenly, the shackles which have bound her are beginning to snap, as personal revelation replaces orthodoxy.

Terry Tempest Williams

#18. Nothing chases away the sand or the memories engraved on the back of my eyelids. They play on a continuous loop, with smells and sound and sorrow.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#19. The thing is to get the work done.

Dale Carnegie

#20. I remember all the kids picking their chosen career paths and I was thinking, If I'm an actor I can be an astronaut and a policeman and a firefighter. At the time I was so young that I actually thought actors were all of those things.

Chris Lowell

#21. Kristen Bell is one of my best friends. I've had the pleasure of working with some really great people, and Kristen is just a beautiful, talented young lady.

Chris Lowell

#22. If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at paintings or movies or plays or whatever, is just a litany of murder and death.

Ethan Hawke

#23. There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#24. Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

David Mamet