Top 36 Matthew Modine Quotes

#1. Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

Matthew Modine

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#2. I saw Tom Cruise at every audition I went up for, and he was a friendly go-getter back then. You gotta remember, in New York I would go up for something, I would sit, and in the room would be Matthew Modine, Matthew Broderick, Andrew McCarthy, Tom Cruise, and Kevin Bacon.

Zach Galligan

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#3. For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

Matthew Modine

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#4. There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

Matthew Modine

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#5. I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game ... usually softball.

Matthew Modine

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#6. I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

Matthew Modine

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#7. I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

Matthew Modine

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#8. They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

Matthew Modine

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#9. So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

Matthew Modine

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#10. Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#11. If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.

Stanley Kubrick

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#12. The leader must be an actor.

George S. Patton

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#13. DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.

Terence McKenna

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#14. I've worked with Robert Altman a couple of times too.

Matthew Modine

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#15. Beauty is truth, truth beauty

John Keats

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#16. Time is as adhesive as love, and the more time you spend with someone the greater the likelihood of finding yourself with a permanent sort of thing to deal with that people casually refer to as 'friendship,' as if that were the end of the matter.

Deborah Eisenberg

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#17. Everything is so convenient in New York.

Matthew Modine

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#18. I must admit, even my fans everywhere I go in the world - just this week I was in London and Glasgow and the week before I was in Des Moines - my fans all look the same in all those cities - they look great!

John Waters

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#19. I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.

Fernando Pessoa

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#20. Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

Matthew Modine

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#21. I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.

Matthew Modine

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#22. It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.

Matthew Modine

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#23. You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

Matthew Modine

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#24. The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.

John Calvin

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#25. We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

Matthew Modine

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#26. Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

Matthew Modine

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#27. The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.

Matthew Modine

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#28. Pvt. Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is what counts!"
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman USMC

Matthew Modine

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#29. Fifteen dollar too beaucoup. Five dollars each ... Five dollars is all my mom allows me to spend.

Matthew Modine

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#30. Listen here, Mr. Shiftlet," she said, sliding forward in her chair, "you'd be getting a permanent house and a deep well and the most innocent girl in the world. You don't need no money. Lemme tell you something: there ain't any place in the world for a poor disabled friendless drifting man.

Flannery O'Connor

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#31. Politics envelops us like the coils of a snake and no way out but to wrestle with it

Mahatma Gandhi

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#32. In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

Khaled Hosseini

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#33. My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

Matthew Modine

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#34. I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.

Matthew Modine

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#35. One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

Bobby Flay

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#36. If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.

Matthew Modine

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