Mcnairy Quotes

#1. I love traditional shoes. I have a nice couple of pairs of traditional Oxford-style shoes, a pair of Edward Green shoes, and I aspire to a pair of hand-made George Cleverley shoes. Mark McNairy, all those are amazing.

Jamie Cullum

#2. I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.

Scoot McNairy

#3. In no way do I want to draw attention to myself.

Scoot McNairy

#4. Not all pictures but some pictures you're like, "Wow, I wish I could be there" or you feel like you are there. I don't know what it is about cinematography.

Scoot McNairy

#5. I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I said I would think about it.

Mark McNairy

#6. Blessed are the generous, for they know their riches belong to others. Blessed

Tony Hendra

#7. I've been asked, 'What was your big break?' I don't feel like I've had a big break. It's been a slow, slow break.

Scoot McNairy

#8. Relationship is like a job but you can't ever retire. When you stop working at it, it stops working.

Tony Gaskins

#9. I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.

Scoot McNairy

#10. I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.

Scoot McNairy

#11. Fear, tenderness - these emotions were so despised that they could be admitted into consciousness only at the cost of redefining what it meant to be a man.

Pat Barker

#12. You mean like you?" The old enmity had come roaring back, and she was no longer one of my bosses. She gave a shout of laughter. "Well, you're right, it's been a rotten time. I've been catering, which is just another way of saying that I've been in hell." "That bad?" Richard took a bite

Ruth Reichl

#13. When you hire somebody, you shouldn't have to tell them [a lot of what] to do; you hire them because you like their work and all you've got to do is tweak them a little bit.

Scoot McNairy

#14. I did not have a computer until recently. I'm not really a computer person; I'm really hands-on. I can't make it work if it's all behind the black curtain. It doesn't interest me. I want to see what's actually happening back there.

Scoot McNairy

#15. To book commercials, you do something to get to a callback, and once you get to the callback, you've got three minutes to get the people to want to hang out with you for a day.

Scoot McNairy

#16. It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.

Scoot McNairy

#17. As a child there was no place for adventure or experimentation. I guess that kind of freedom started in high school with punk rock. That's what enlightened me to not being afraid to express myself.

Mark McNairy

#18. When I was a kid I was very particular. I was actually beyond particular. I would iron my money and spray it with Polo cologne.

Mark McNairy

#19. I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.

Scoot McNairy

#20. I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.

Scoot McNairy

#21. I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot of admiration for, you turn into putty in their hands.

Scoot McNairy

#22. Bigger brands like Shinola are capitalizing on what all of us small companies did. Shinola is just totally fake. It's a corporate entity that's taking advantage of what everybody else has done. They say it's all about made in U.S., but one Wal-Mart hires more employees than their whole company.

Mark McNairy

#23. Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in terms that appeal to your team's best instincts. Persuade and empower as if you are leading and mentoring volunteers.

Tony Dungy

#24. I've been working with Five Four. The partnership started as one monthly collaboration, but now I'm the creative design director. There are still going to be collaborations for monthly drops, but we are launching e-commerce.

Mark McNairy

#25. When I lace my shoes I can't stand when they are twisted and dirty. It just looks sloppy. Even if it's a new pair of Chuck Taylors and the laces are all twisted it looks like you don't care.

Mark McNairy

#26. I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography.

Scoot McNairy

#27. I don't consider what you're wearing when I design a shoe. I don't have a particular look in mind or make a shoe thinking, "This would look great with a blue pinstripe suit." I just let you dress yourself. I'm looking at the shoe itself, not as a component of an outfit.

Mark McNairy

#28. There are too many brands. You can start your own brand from your bedroom. It's a good thing and a bad thing.

Mark McNairy

#29. I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.

Scoot McNairy

#30. To have three movies coming out at the same time - I probably will never have that again in my life.

Scoot McNairy

#31. They don't understand that I'm just choosing to be dumb. I'm not dumb. I'm just choosing not to be smart at the moment, but if I put in effort, then I could be really smart, but I choose not to.

Jonah

#32. I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

Scoot McNairy

#33. I thought the Made in America men's wear push was a big revolution in terms of smaller companies taking charge, but it seems like it's gotten out of control.

Mark McNairy

#34. Now air is the cause and spirit of every life and motion in the world, be it in flesh or in any of the vegetables; all whatever is hath its life from the air, and nothing whatsoever that moveth and is in this world can subsist without air.

Jakob Bohme

#35. I make different choices in regards to the stories I want to be a part of. In my mind, it's a totally different medium. Commercials are little skits, and movies are stories; I became a little more picky in my choices for stories that I wanted to be involved in.

Scoot McNairy