Top 38 Matthew Ashford Quotes
#1. Obviously, you check tht she's safe, she's clean, got all the fingers and toes, like that's going to help them through life. It'll help them walk, but you can't pull them out and check their IQ or anything.
Matthew Ashford
#2. Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?
Samuel Johnson
#3. I think having eight kids evens things out a bit. You learn about the world; you learn about the world; you learn you've got to get along. We're all - if anything - very adjustable.
Matthew Ashford
#4. It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.
Matthew Ashford
#5. All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do.
Matthew Ashford
#7. Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.
Matthew Ashford
#8. The fact is, it was a big show. We were a part of that show. Everybody watches for different reasons. There were some people who were tuning in that day to see what was going on with other characters.
Matthew Ashford
#10. I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.
Matthew Ashford
#11. Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.
Heinz Von Foerster
#12. Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success
Austin Phelps
#14. FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.
Ambrose Bierce
#15. I tried to laugh early on about ego and pride ... I do something great and then I do something really dumb and then I laugh. You'll always be that kid.
Matthew Ashford
#16. Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well.
Meister Eckhart
#17. Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.
Saint Francis De Sales
#18. The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.
Bertie Carvel
#19. There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
Jean Baudrillard
#20. I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.
Matthew Ashford
#21. You have to be awake at 6 a.m., when everyone else is asleep.
Matthew Ashford
#22. I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.
Matthew Ashford
#23. Married relationships are not what we are pretending they are. It is not the '40s or the 50s anymore - we cannot pretend, things are changing.
Matthew Ashford
#24. Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me ... a relaxation ... I get my ideas from everyday events.
Matthew Ashford
#25. So often I speak of "out of the box thinking" and living a "conscious life"; however, not regularly do I meet someone who lives such a life. What an inspiration (and challenge) to see someone who really lives in the now, who looks forward and dares to stop when thoughts turn to pain from the past!
Paula Heller Garland
#26. What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it.
Matthew Ashford
#27. I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.
Danny DeVito
#28. After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career.
Matthew Ashford
#29. It confirms for me that we did something on Days that meant something. We had our ups and downs, but Missy and I and some of the other actors, created something that was really memorable.
Matthew Ashford
#30. When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.
Matthew Ashford
#31. It's very easy for me to laugh at myself and laugh at life.
Matthew Ashford
#32. It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with.
Matthew Ashford
#33. We are usually running around trying to get ready for the day, and our minds are often plagued with internal chatter about what we have to do, where we have to go, we have to see, what we forgot to do, the fact that we are running late, a recent argument with our significant other or family member.
Hal Elrod
#34. As many times as [HIV] changes its clothes, it's still wearing the same socks, and now our job is to make sure we get the body to really hate those socks.
Seth Berkley
#35. Melissa and I have the best working relationship, and we feel that Jack and Jennifer have so much more to do.
Matthew Ashford
#36. For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.
Matthew Ashford
#37. A driving range is the place where golfers go to get all the good shots out of their system.
Henry Beard
#38. L.A. is not a town that supports a lot of theater. Most of the shows don't get through a week or two and then, the audience kind of disappears.
Matthew Ashford
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