Top 40 Finn Wittrock Quotes
#1. Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
Finn Wittrock
#2. It doesn't really matter in the end. Most people I talk to don't take writing seriously. If I tell them I'm an aspiring author, they get that "yeah right" look on their face, which is usually followed by "good luck with that.
Karina Halle
#3. I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.
Finn Wittrock
#4. Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.
Miguel De Icaza
#5. As an actor, you look at some people and know if they're there with you or not.
Finn Wittrock
#6. So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I've done a few guest spots on TV but nothing that long-term. I did a little 'E.R.' back when it was on, and a pilot for 'Cold Case.'
Finn Wittrock
#7. I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.
Finn Wittrock
#8. That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
Finn Wittrock
#9. Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
Teresa Of Avila
#11. We all have monsters inside of us, and we all have an inner child in us. You always think about your inner child as being the sweet and innocent part of yourself, but it's also the part that's all ego with the mentality of, "If the world isn't pleasing me, it isn't doing its job."
Finn Wittrock
#13. A place with no handholds,no landmarks,no past at all:That would have been too much like dying
Margaret Atwood
#14. When I heard Jonathan [Cole's agent] repeat the figure of £55k-a-week, I nearly swerved off the road. 'He is taking the p**s, Jonathan!' I yelled down the phone. I was so incensed. I was trembling with anger. I couldn't believe what I'd heard.
Ashley Cole
#15. I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
Finn Wittrock
#16. I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.
Finn Wittrock
#17. In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
Finn Wittrock
#19. What you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person.
Finn Wittrock
#20. I went to an Arts High School, so everyone there was kind of anti-clique, though they still happened. I guess I was in the theatre-dork clique. Not to be confused with the musical-theatre-dork clique.
Finn Wittrock
#21. Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
Finn Wittrock
#22. There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
Finn Wittrock
#23. Knowledge is power. It
is my hope that as we continue to do what women do best-network, guide, and
provide support for each other-POP will soon become common knowledge.
Sherrie J. Palm
#24. I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.
Margaret Atwood
#25. I was married then. I was the happiest of the happy. - Esther Summerson
Charles Dickens
#26. Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're faced with, like getting money. It's a really great thing to do. You feel like you're really an artist when you're doing that and you're in a company of artists.
Finn Wittrock
#27. I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.
Finn Wittrock
#29. I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.
Finn Wittrock
#30. I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.
Finn Wittrock
#31. Physically, I was always moving. I was always a little jittery.
Finn Wittrock
#32. I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I've been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous.
Finn Wittrock
#33. Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.
Finn Wittrock
#34. Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.
Sarah Palin
#35. The best villains are the nicest guys in person.
Finn Wittrock
#36. You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.
Finn Wittrock
#37. I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection and so little you have control of. Writing is something that you can do, and no one can tell you not to.
Finn Wittrock
#38. At times, competition can be a good thing. But a person's value isn't something that can be ranked, is it?
Hotaru Odagiri
#39. I alwyas want to try and create new looks and new things, but equally scary, hopefully. But a new kind of style.
Neil Marshall
#40. I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
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