Michael Carpenter Quotes

#1. Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.

Michael Pitt

#2. Hell's bells. I don't call him the Fist of God as a pet name, folks.

Jim Butcher

#3. There's something really amazing about watching an actor like Michael C. Hall or Jennifer Carpenter, who are completely professional and do everything so brilliantly, but yet can have a really great time on set.

Brea Grant

#4. At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.

Donald Pleasence

#5. The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

Jim Butcher

#6. People may feel that I am materialistic, ideal, idiot, cool, funny. Its not their perception but my projection and I always have my own reasons for my being.

Giridhar Alwar

#7. I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible.

Paul Martin

#8. It's one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does not make it right to bloody my own. My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.

Jim Butcher

#9. It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

Pamela Dean

#10. I followed whatever train I wanted. I wrote without writing - of genies and hustlers and mythic travelers, my vagabondia. Then I would walk back home, happily satisfied, and resume my daily tasks.

Patti Smith

#11. The greatest blessing in the whole world is being a blessing.

Jack Hyles

#12. There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

Ellen Glasgow

#13. I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

James Herriot

#14. I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work.

Boyd Holbrook

#15. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy and wise if it don't make him wealthy.

Dick King-Smith

#16. To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.

John Carpenter

#17. In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.

John Carpenter

#18. I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.

Jim Butcher