Top 100 Parts That Quotes
#1. I have learned one lesson as a writer ... keep writing and never throw any notes away. Written parts that can't be used today ... may be used for other books tomorrow.
Timothy Pina
#2. It's hard when you look a certain way. I look All-American, sweet, girl-next-door, so naturally those are the parts that are going to land on my doorstep.
Melissa Joan Hart
#3. The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.
Madeline Claire Franklin
#4. It's really hard to find parts that challenge me as an actor these days. At this point in my career, I feel like I can just sleepwalk through most of my roles and still do a better job than 90 percent of the actors out there.
Zach Braff
#5. I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.
David Schwimmer
#6. And thus they selectively remember parts of their life, focusing on those parts that support their own points of view.
Carol Tavris
#7. To me, ugliness, grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the harmony. It's all the parts that are wrong that help explain why we're drawn to something - what the mystery is - just as much as the beautiful things.
Carrie Brownstein
#8. I would like to have opportunities in my career to do parts that people would remember - either the whole character or certain moments that they personally could really connect to or were really affected by it deeply.
Austin Peck
#9. Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other; such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated; we desire something else and begin a new pursuit.
Samuel Johnson
#10. Kick hard when you have the chance. Aim for parts that hurt. Hope you get lucky and his surprise shocks him into being stupid. Then knock him out with the shovel if you've got one handy. If not, go find the shovel." - Nora
Timandra Whitecastle
#11. I can't say there were parts I was offered and turned down, but there were meetings for parts that I didn't go to, meetings I should have gone to, meetings I was advised against going to. I listened to that advice.
Cathy Moriarty
#12. An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.
Kevin Kelly
#13. Of all the parts that make up my somewhat quirky life, there are few things that raise a stranger's eyebrows faster than discovering I love country music.
LZ Granderson
#14. I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.
Romola Garai
#15. The Greek word for "rooster" is built from combined parts that mean "getter out of bed".
J.C. McKeown
#16. The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
Jack Kilby
#17. Beginnings are the hardest because they're the parts that pull people in, that make them want the ends. And endings are the most painful, the parts that can leave you bleeding out.
Krista Ritchie
#18. The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.
George Saunders
#19. Girls are supposed to dance. That's why God gave them parts that jiggle.
Donald Glover
#20. When you write, you're always revealing a difficult part of yourself. It may not be a part of yourself that looks as difficult - there are parts that look more difficult - but in fact, they are all difficult, and you get kind of used to doing that. It is sort of the nature of the thing.
Joan Didion
#21. The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it made her unreal; and us solemn, and self-conscious. We were made to act parts that we did not feel; to fumble for words that we did not know. It obscured, it dulled.
Virginia Woolf
#22. Show me all of you, Addison. The parts that no one else sees- show me.
Ella Frank
#23. As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.
Matt Damon
#24. I try to preserve a certain amount of time away from the movies, so I don't allow time to do those smaller parts that might give me an opportunity to do more seemingly 'artful' things. Although, having said that, I don't feel any lack of noble purpose if I do a film that's commercial.
Harrison Ford
#25. He did not think of the ten years: What remained of them tonight was only a feeling which he could not name, except that it was quiet and solemn. The feeling was a sum, and he did not have to count again the parts that had gone to make it.
Ayn Rand
#26. The mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. Like a rider on the back of an elephant, the conscious reasoning part of the mind has only limited control of what the elephant does.
Jonathan Haidt
#27. The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
Barbara Cartland
#28. The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.
Scott Adams
#29. It comes down to this: we're pieces of equipment
To be counted and signed for.
On occasion some of us break down,
And those parts which can't be salvaged
Are replaced with other GI parts, that's all.
Rolando Hinojosa
#30. People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I've found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that's just not me.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
#31. I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
Jonathan Lethem
#32. This is all so silly,' said Diko. 'Who cares about what's real and what isn't real? [ ... ] And as for our own history, the parts that will be lost, who cares if a mathematician calls us dirty names like "unreal"? They say such slanders about the square root of minus two as well.
Orson Scott Card
#33. We need to face what we are. All of what we are, especially the parts that hurt.
Sara Raasch
#34. I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains.
Tommy Lee Jones
#35. For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling ... lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.
Robbie Robertson
#36. I'm just naturally gravitating towards different things. As you mature, different subject matters. And as you're older, you can't play as many parts, or you shouldn't be playing the parts that you used to play. But also there's the opportunity to play parts that you couldn't have.
Clint Eastwood
#37. I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
Jean Giraudoux
#38. It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
Naveen Andrews
#39. You can't really escape the fact that more reasonable gun regulations and procedures need to be in place, a strengthening and tightening of the national background check system. I don't know why any civilian would ever be able to purchase an assault weapon or the parts that go with it.
Michael Nutter
#40. All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.
Yaphet Kotto
#41. There are certain people that are so much a part of you, that are so loved, that they shine up your insides just by being around. They fill in all your parts that feel empty. And when they leave the world, you don't know how to be without them.
Jessica Lawson
#42. It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me ... it's the parts that I do.
Mark Twain
#43. And I'll try to make the parts that I find, happy. Because you make me happy. So much.
Pleasefindthis
#44. I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.
Scott Thompson
#45. But hear thee, Gratiano:
Thou art too wild, too rude, and bold of voice -
Parts that become thee happily enough,
And in such eyes as ours appear no faults,
But where thou art not known, why, there they show
Something too liberal.
William Shakespeare
#46. If you only take parts that are offered to you, you end up playing the same roles over and over again. I think it's important to keep auditioning. I think it's important to scare yourself; to take parts that are outside of your comfort zone.
Jared Harris
#47. I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.
Christopher Walken
#48. I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.
Lena Dunham
#49. The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.
Scott Caan
#50. Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole ...
Henri Matisse
#51. I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated, and I can't imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I've got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged.
Elisabeth Shue
#52. Most parts that can be played by one actor can equally well be played by another, but not this.
Kenneth More
#53. Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them. They live in the safe, shallow, parts that rarely push human emotions into the depths where we dwell.
Susan Abulhawa
#54. I'm often given parts that aren't as big as they are colorful, but people remember them. When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like 'Hamlet'.
Denholm Elliott
#55. Life has a way of dismantling us, piece by piece and then allowing us to redesign ourselves, to keep the parts that work and discard those that no longer fit.
Toni Sorenson
#56. When a marriage fails, the story of the relationship changes. The best parts, the parts that made you think getting married was a good idea, fade from memory.
Tori Spelling
#57. I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.
Michael Imperioli
#58. The Amoeba?" she asked Aiden.
"The gang," he said, tossing his hand to indicate all around. "My
people. A large amorphous mass that keeps on changing size, hasn't
much apparent use, sometimes makes you sick, and occasionally breaks
off into smaller parts that act exactly like the parent.
Annette Curtis Klause
#59. I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are human, and that allow them to go to a wide range of places.
Peter Hedges
#60. Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.
Kim Cattrall
#61. A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.
Eric Maisel
#62. I don't think I ever got parts that interested me. Well, I did occasionally, but more often than not, they did not interest me.
Maureen O'Sullivan
#63. Depicting yourself as a whole person on the page doesn't only mean recognizing your role in a bad situation. It means being emotionally authentic. It means showing all of yourself: the shameful parts, the embarrassing parts, the parts that you might regret or that you wish weren't true.
Kerry Cohen
#64. I like playing guys where it's as important what they're thinking as what they're saying. Those are the people I like playing, and the actor that I strive to be. I like actors who work in that area and I like parts that allow me to work in that area.
Lennie James
#65. I want to do parts that are outside of the box.
Rutina Wesley
#66. There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.
Martin Freeman
#67. The greatest stories appeal to our deepest selves, the parts of us snobbery can't reach, the parts that connect the child to the adult and the brain to the heart and reality to dreams. Stories, at their essence, are enemies of snobbery. And a book snob is the enemy of the book.
Matt Haig
#68. On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.
Bill Budge
#69. I want to work on interesting parts that I can believe in.
Laetitia Casta
#70. I put myself back together as best as I could, but I was sure that parts of me were broken permanently. Dark parts of me. Parts that I'd held onto for far too long.
Laurelin Paige
#71. I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.
Anna Torv
#72. There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.
Louis Jourdan
#73. But pulling away only makes things worse. God says, "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart" (Jeremiah 29:13). All my heart includes the parts that are broken. Bring it all to God.
Lysa TerKeurst
#74. I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers.
Gina Philips
#75. Unlike her closest primate cousins, the standard human female doesn't come equipped with private parts that swell up to double their normal size and turn bright red when she is about to ovulate. In
Christopher Ryan
#76. Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.
Ken Follett
#77. I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play. I get that. And I don't shy away from those parts.
Jason Bateman
#78. What I mean is, things like that happen. They may seem might cruel and unfair, but that's how life is a part of the time. But that isn't the only way life is. A part of the time, it's mighty good. And a man can't afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad
Fred Gipson
#79. From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read it. She told our agent what kinds of parts that we would want.
Anna Chlumsky
#80. I like acting because I get to find different parts of myself, or at least create different parts that don't already exist, and see the world through someone else's eyes.
Bex Taylor-Klaus
#81. I remember that I used to get lots of books from the library, and 'Little Women' was one of them. And I used to just cross out the parts of it that really upset me because it's such a sad book in so many ways. I'd cross out the parts that upset me, and I would rewrite new endings.
Helen Oyeyemi
#82. In the last pocket of darkness before the glare of Beachfront Drive, they came to a pause, a timeless pedestrian gesture in these parts that usually announced a kiss or at least a grabbed ass.
Thomas Pynchon
#83. Do not get yourself into the illusion that there is something so unique about the question of organ or body parts ... that the general rules of economics do not apply.
Richard Allen Epstein
#84. So often you're asked to play impossibly perfect version of yourself on screen that it's nice to get to bring in those parts that you think aren't as worth looking at.
Zoe Kazan
#85. I listened intently. He chose to skim past the parts that would put his ridiculous worries to rest, and I chose to snatch the book from his hand and read those parts aloud to him.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#86. I don't play long parts. They must be short parts, but they've got to be parts that mean something, that matter, where people will notice when I'm on the screen, and people will remember the character after they've seen the film.
Christopher Lee
#87. But we cannot unbraid the story of another person's life and take out all the parts that don't suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
Ann Patchett
#88. There's a million people I could name who are more deserving of the parts that I get and the life that I'm living.
Megan Fox
#89. Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
Stephen Fry
#90. I will see great things when I am willing to be seen. I will receive new eyes that see the mysteries of GOd's own life, but only when I allow God to see me, all of me, even those parts that I myself do not want to see.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#91. God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good - and is no sillier than any other theology.
Robert A. Heinlein
#92. The parts of me that I love the most are the parts that belong to her.
Krista Ritchie
#93. You were a hero round these parts. That's what they call you when you kill so many people the word murderer falls short.
Joe Abercrombie
#94. I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.
Enya
#95. Oh, I have a very pure soul. It's only my private parts that have gotten me into trouble.
Lisa Kleypas
#96. Why's it always the heart or the eye of something?" Rishi asks. "You notice that? There are so many body parts that don't get enough love, like earlobes and belly buttons.
Zoraida Cordova
#98. A common misperception of me is ... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.
Sean Bean
#99. He's got all the equipment of manhood save the parts that matter.
Benjamin Whitmer
#100. It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
Pankaj Patel
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