Matthey Quotes

#1. My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

Dave Brubeck

#2. Having a good director is very important. It's crucial. When you do good work with a certain director, you want to work with them again, and hopefully vice versa.

Giles Matthey

#3. I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.

Pamela Anderson

#4. Until I did my work and I did my utmost best, I feel like I don't have a right to feel excited.

Giles Matthey

#5. I just saw dialogue, in the audition, and had no backstory. I was like, "I'm just going to be myself because I have no idea who this is or where he's coming from." The typical questions that actors have to ask themselves were very hard. I had to imagine, a little bit, and just made it work.

Giles Matthey

#6. What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow.

Giles Matthey

#7. I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.

Ted Naifeh

#8. Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

Tom Jones

#9. Everyone gets scared, like it's some big profound statement?

Elizabeth Scott

#10. There's this feeling, when you stop believing it's a show and you're there and this is happening.

Giles Matthey

#11. In my ideal world, it would be a soulful connection to the role because you've shared a lot of the same experiences as the character and you just feel so right in it. That's the first thing I look for.

Giles Matthey

#12. For a relative newcomer, it's obviously a dream to work with such a talented actress as Anna Paquin, who won an Oscar at 10, or something ridiculous like that. That's a dream.

Giles Matthey

#13. I suppose no one truly admits the existence of another person.

Fernando Pessoa

#14. It'll be like when your parents give you the biggest present at Christmas but you unwrap it and there's a smaller present inside and that keeps happening until you have a mountain o wrapping paper, some new socks, and a lot of unresolved anger.

Jenny Lawson

#15. There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.

Karolina Kurkova

#16. You provide a lot of people with entertainment, and that's what will happen. I don't think you should ever feel like you're used to anything of that nature because you're no different from anyone else.

Giles Matthey

#17. I felt like I had to prove myself, but I feel that you have to do that anyway, as an actor. You're there to do a job, and that's your primary concern.

Giles Matthey

#18. Dimitri held up a car seat with one hand, which was almost comical. "We can go whenever you're ready. Lana gave us this and swears it's easy to install."
Rose laughed at that. "Oh, this I've got to see, comrade. Dimitri Belikov, badass god, installing a baby's car seat.

Richelle Mead

#19. Will still support my weight, but it drags beneath me uselessly; and when I prick it with my stylus, there is the merest ghost of a pain. I still have not informed

John Edward Williams

#20. Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

Jon Corzine

#21. An actor's job is to do their job. It's great if it's successful and it's fantastic when it's a huge hit, but at the same time, you're there to do a job and make sure you do it well.

Giles Matthey

#22. Islamic terrorism is not common crime but an act of war. Jihad is war. For the Jihadi it is a war; we must also accept it as such. Home grown Muslim militants must be treated, not just as enemy combatants but as traitors.

Ali Sina

#23. If you haven't done something amazing, don't forget to try. the worst that can happen is you fail, and then you can just try again until you succeed. those words don't work on me now, but just try to remember them

Esther Earl

#24. The wavelets flung themselves up as if trying to pat my feet and I darted back, laughing, and picked up my skirts to chase them back as they receded, in a game of tag more ancient than I then knew.

Amanda DeWees

#25. You should always view any job as just as nerve-wracking or just as exciting as any other.

Giles Matthey

#26. If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people.

Giles Matthey

#27. After I've done a good job, then I can get excited. Obviously, it would be very easy to get carried away, but I wanted to own that excitement.

Giles Matthey

#28. You look for the roles where, when you read it, you're just like, "Yes, I know that. I know that feeling. I know what it means to feel like that. I know this person." When you have a soulful connection to a part, that's a dream come true.

Giles Matthey