Michael Vartan Quotes

#1. I'm not a bling-bling guy; I can't pull it off. I just look like an idiot.

Michael Vartan

#2. I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.

Michael Vartan

#3. He was dominated by the carelessness of happiness, by the high indifference of joy.

Oscar Wilde

#4. You never know why or when the next job is coming. I actually like that. It's kind of exciting. I don't punch in. I don't have a 9 to 5 job. When you do work you're lucky enough to go to interesting places and meet mostly interesting and talented people, so it's really a great job if you can work.

Michael Vartan

#5. God has the experience that comes from billions of years.

James Cook

#6. Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

Martin Scorsese

#7. You try and live your life as normally as possible and if someone invents a rumor that I have two vaginas, so be it. There's nothing I can do about it.

Michael Vartan

#8. I've always loved sports and hockey is a sport I play as much as I can. I love it. In a weird way it's like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. I mean when I play hockey I don't think about anything.

Michael Vartan

#9. Such is how Science makes progress: not destroying the past, but learning from it, and building on it.

Felix Alba-Juez

#10. You just have to keep plugging away and if you get lucky enough to get a job, you get one.

Michael Vartan

#11. There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

Ben Hecht

#12. Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion.

S. E. Entsua-Mensah

#13. Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.

Michael Vartan

#14. If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.

Gary Cole

#15. We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.
A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message.

Norbert Wiener

#16. I hate gold. I'm sort of a sterling-silver guy.

Michael Vartan

#17. It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.

Matt Mullenweg

#18. But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.

C.C. Hunter

#19. I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.

Michael Vartan

#20. There must not be any single person in the world whom you should allow to rent a portion of your heart. Don't hold grudge. Forgive and move on...

Assegid Habtewold

#21. In a weird way, [hockey] is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.

Michael Vartan

#22. I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.

Michael Vartan

#23. I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

Richard Grant

#24. Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.

Thomas Aquinas

#25. Depression and anxiety are two of the body's first reactions to stockpiles of hurt. Of course, there are organic and biochemical reasons we experience clinical depression and debilitating anxiety - causes over which we have no control - but unrecognized pain and unprocessed hurt can also lead there.

Brene Brown