Oliver Platt Quotes

#1. You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'

Gabriel Basso

#2. As my friend Oliver Platt used to say to me about hopes and dreams I'd share with him: 'It's coming, just not on your time frame.

Lauren Graham

#3. The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

Oliver Platt

#4. Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising.

Mary Oliver

#5. My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.

Domhnall Gleeson

#6. AIBO permits something different: attachment without responsibility.

Sherry Turkle

#7. People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.

Oliver Platt

#8. A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.

Amy Winehouse

#9. It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

Sheila Jackson Lee

#10. There is a tendency in most of us to assume that we are just a little bit better than others. It we try to see ourselves as others see us, especially as God sees us, perhaps we would have a less exalted opinion of ourselves.

J. Maurus

#11. We cannot sense without acting and we cannot act without sensing.

Thomas Hanna

#12. I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

Oliver Platt

#13. Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life. We grow into the thing that fills our thoughts as inevitably as the stream merges into the ocean at last.

Emmet Fox

#14. Much of this waste reduction comes from Lean's goal of a "kaizen" culture. Kaizen is a state of continuous improvement where people naturally look for ways to improve poorly performing practices.

Jim Benson

#15. The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.

Cameron Russell

#16. We're so busy keeping busy that we fail to see the error of our ways.

Frank Sonnenberg

#17. 2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

Oliver Platt

#18. You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean ... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

Oliver Platt

#19. I think of myself as an actor.

Oliver Platt

#20. The greatest possession we have costs nothing; it's known as love ...

Brian Jett

#21. The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

Oliver Platt

#22. You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.

Oliver Platt

#23. I think theater is a core need of a community.

Sam Underwood

#24. You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as a fun little role but it was more of a cameo, not anywhere near as developed as this role.

Oliver Platt