John Slattery Quotes

#1. The wisdom of spiritual direction is precisely that we refuse to stand between God and the person who so needs to hear God for himself, for herself.

Gordon T. Smith

#2. When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.

John Slattery

#3. I've dyed my hair a million times and it looks terrible, always. It just looks fake. And it doesn't make me look that much younger.

John Slattery

#4. Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.

John Slattery

#5. I've done a lot of pilots. A lot of shows. You're young and you do a job just because you know someone gave you a job.

John Slattery

#6. We all went through that teen phase of wearing that really soft fragrance. As I got older, I started loving men's fragrances and cologne. I was so attracted to men's cologne; I would spray it all over me.

John Slattery

#7. Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#8. Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.

John Slattery

#9. I'm proud of myself that I had the courage to experiment with crazy hairstyles and some fashion things.

John Slattery

#10. The rule of surfing is never tell anyone where you go.

John Slattery

#11. I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way.

John Slattery

#12. My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.

John Slattery

#13. It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.

Luc De Clapiers

#14. I'm a little kid at heart, so my eyes light up when everything is lit.

John Slattery

#15. To be together again, after so long, who love the sunny wind, the windy sun, in the sun, in the wind, that is perhaps something, perhaps something.

Samuel Beckett

#16. I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.

John Slattery

#17. But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

John Slattery

#18. My mom used to wear the fragrance Poison when I was younger, and I remember that scent and the purple bottle. That was my first [perfume] memory.

John Slattery

#19. I used to wonder if the occasionally rough edges of politics were unique here under the Great North Star. But I ventured out a bit this past year, and I tell you that, as partisan quarrels go, ours really aren't so bad.

Sarah Palin

#20. I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.

John Slattery

#21. It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime has more than 4 dimensions, that particles can move faster than light, or that human life can be prolonged indefinitely.

Mario Bunge

#22. I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it.

Boyd Rice

#23. When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

John Slattery

#24. You have to fight for what you need to fight for.

John Slattery

#25. Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

John Slattery

#26. Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.

John Slattery

#27. And I don't want to jump out of an airplane - I've done that.

John Slattery

#28. I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

John Slattery

#29. For some reason surfing ... I'm not scared of the ocean so the risk doesn't seem as great to me.

John Slattery

#30. You put a movie star or a bunch of movie stars in a movie, it doesn't mean people are gonna go see it. It's been proven time and time again.

John Slattery

#31. I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

John Slattery

#32. I don't have to worry about how my movies sell because I'm not the guy in front.

John Slattery

#33. I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It's really risky.

John Slattery

#34. Authentic kindness has a power greater than rock, paper and scissors combined.

Toni Sorenson

#35. A painting can't be everything. You have to stop, at some point. It has to be finished, if you want anyone to see it. Some people just continue to work on things, forever. I don't know which is better.

John Slattery

#36. The good thing about directing yourself is that you get over yourself.

John Slattery

#37. Human experience always contains both pain and joy. One of the reasons we can be confident that Christianity is actually true is it allows us to make sense of both aspects of the world. Of both beauty and pain.

Holly Ordway