Ivanek Quotes

#1. Movie stars are doing TV series, and former TV stars are doing guest shots. Everybody gets bumped down the line. That's affected everyone in the industry. I've been lucky; I've stayed busy. I'll cross my fingers until it's my turn to be sitting around, not working. I'm sure that'll happen, too.

Zeljko Ivanek

#2. Rule for love. Accept him/her without any conditions

Sid

#3. When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place.

Zeljko Ivanek

#4. I think the important thing to remember is that all relationships benefit from a bit of breathing room. Especially friendships. It's only when you find yourself without the women who understand you that you realize there are very few women who will.

Megan Crane

#5. My feeling is, from when I started on 'Breaking Bad,' there's no reason to pick and choose because every episode is great. Whatever episode you get, you're lucky to do it.

Michelle MacLaren

#6. A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

Richard Cobden

#7. Born on straw at night
under low stable rafters,
Baby Jesus cried.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.

Zeljko Ivanek

#9. I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater.

Zeljko Ivanek

#10. I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

Bertrand Russell

#11. I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.

Zeljko Ivanek

#12. And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.

Alberto Juantorena

#13. Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

William Blake

#14. I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.

Zeljko Ivanek

#15. It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

Zeljko Ivanek

#16. I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.

Zeljko Ivanek

#17. The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.

Zeljko Ivanek

#18. What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

Zeljko Ivanek

#19. In television, you are of necessity working in bits and pieces and scenes, and things are out of order, and you never can have the same sense of how will this look when it's all put together, what will the effect be.

Zeljko Ivanek

#20. Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.

Zeljko Ivanek

#21. I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.

Zeljko Ivanek

#22. I am not nostalgic for the past.

Christian Lacroix

#23. He's the 'him' in every sentence that really matters; he's the 'he' in every song.

Emery Lord