Top 100 Paxton Quotes
#1. It was Paxton Osgood, wearing a cute pink dress and gorgeous shoes. She was tall like her brother, but had wide curves, as if one of her angular French ancestors had scandalized everyone by marrying a pretty stout milkmaid, and several generations later, Paxton was the result.
Sarah Addison Allen
#2. I copied everything I did in Galaxy Quest from Bill Paxton in Aliens, I owe him some credit.
Sam Rockwell
#3. Paxton walked over to the box and opened it, still feeling a little of that thrill she used to have at the thought of party dresses, the fantasy of it all. She smiled when she saw the shimmering pink material, the sparkling jewels at the neckline.
Sarah Addison Allen
#4. But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.
Sarah Addison Allen
#5. That is sacrilegious. You just totally dissed man code. If we don't have man code, the world will fall apart."
Kip Paxton
Sasha Marshall
#6. Paxton
If happiness is the end result, if it's that single want that matters, if we had to through that to get here, I'd do it all over again. If it's the love that matters, then why does it matter how we got there? We were the perfect storm of two kinds of crazy.
Jettie Woodruff
#7. I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,' starring Daniel Henney and Bill Paxton. I actually had to speak Chinese in the film. It was funny because I found out I was doing the film and then a week later, I was in Shanghai.
Eliza Coupe
#8. In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In School Today? in Bengali! Tom Paxton's songs are reaching around the world more than he is, or any of us could have realized. Keep on, Tom!
Tom Paxton
#9. I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere.
Shane West
#10. Paxton Pierce was an impossible man. One that no woman could please. Not even me.
Jettie Woodruff
#11. The more comedic roles come easier to me though because I see myself as a silly, easy-going person.
Sara Paxton
#13. I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride.
Bill Paxton
#14. Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which liberal democracy stands accused of producing division and decline.
Robert O. Paxton
#15. Whenever I see young girls wearing way too much makeup ... you're young, you don't need that much.
Sara Paxton
#16. In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.
Bill Paxton
#17. People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don't have one friend who is an actor!
Sara Paxton
#18. In its power, clarity and shear beauty, Mack Bailey's voice reminds me of no one more than my friend, the late John Denver. I love to hear this man sing.
Tom Paxton
#19. Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.
Bill Paxton
#20. Normally I'm not like a big TV person. I never use my DVR.
Sara Paxton
#21. I've had a career that is kind of under the radar, but it sure is varied, and I've been so blessed to be able to get paid to do something I love to do.
Bill Paxton
#22. Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please.
Tom Paxton
#23. Look em in the eye. Make a gesture of inclusion, which he did all the time. And above all, have a chorus. So I learned from Pete Seeger to have something for them to sing.
Tom Paxton
#24. Well, I am a giant pansy and freak out if seaweed touches my leg in the ocean.
Sara Paxton
#25. Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.
Paxton Hood
#26. Howdy. I'm gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don't mind none.
Bill Paxton
#28. I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.
Bill Paxton
#29. A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in every tree.
Tom Paxton
#30. Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.
William McGregor Paxton
#31. Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.
Sara Paxton
#32. I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.
Bill Paxton
#34. It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
Bill Paxton
#35. Marshal Petain's Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn't so evident that he was going to be able to protect them from German extortions, and it didn't look so much as though they had won the war, either. And so by '43, a lot of people are shifting sides.
Robert O. Paxton
#36. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.
Jeremy Paxton
#37. When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.
Edwin Paxton Hood
#38. No, it wasn't an accident, I didn't say that. It was carefully planned, down to the tiniest mechanical and emotional detail. But it was a mistake.
John Paxton
#40. All the women in my family are extremely strong.
Sara Paxton
#41. I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can't take your eyes off of because everything they are doing - even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye - it's just interesting.
Sara Paxton
#42. I think the career of President Mitterrand, which was rather sensational when it was revealed, is probably very typical.
Robert O. Paxton
#43. It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
Bill Paxton
#44. 'Don't be the moth. Be the light bulb.' When I say that I mean don't follow the crowd. Just shine. Be the light bulb. Do your thing. Pave your own path.
Sara Paxton
#45. We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.
Bill Paxton
#46. I definitely try and wash my face twice a day, and I never go to bed with my makeup on. I mostly just wash my face and try to not touch my face because that's when you get pimples.
Sara Paxton
#47. Some hoarders choose to be alone because they have lost someone in the past. On the surface it looks like a hoarder wants to be alone, but the truth is the hoarder doesn't want to get close to someone else and risk another loss or death.
Matt Paxton
#49. My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
Bill Paxton
#50. I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.
Sara Paxton
#51. I didn't even get a computer till I was 16, so I didn't have Internet when I was in middle school and beginning of high school. I didn't think to be looking things up and looking at message boards saying whether people liked me or not.
Sara Paxton
#53. I will become an old, wrinkly lady one day and what will matter are my friends and my family and people who love me.
Sara Paxton
#54. It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
Bill Paxton
#55. Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.
Tom Paxton
#56. Sharks are really serious animals. They've been around longer than dinosaurs. They're basically prehistoric killing machines, and that's terrifying and fascinating, at the same time.
Sara Paxton
#57. Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.
Joseph Paxton
#58. I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art, and I guess growing up, he exposed me to a lot of culture, and I just started making Super-8 films in high school and decided I wanted to be a filmmaker.
Bill Paxton
#59. I told you this one's not right in the head. I just show her my killer weapons and all she wants to do is jump my bones.
Stefanie J. Pristavu
#60. The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.
Edwin Paxton Hood
#61. I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!
Bill Paxton
#62. I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We're seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level.
Bill Paxton
#63. When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies.
Sara Paxton
#64. I think I got an Instamatic camera when I was 8 years old, and ever since then, I've liked to record things. I don't know why. Maybe it's just to kind of try to leave some kind of record behind.
Bill Paxton
#65. You make me feel like I'm drowning.
Megan Duke
#66. Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and each with the floor.
Steve Paxton
#67. My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'
Bill Paxton
#68. Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick.
Jeremy Paxton
#69. I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.
Sara Paxton
#70. I have a lot of fun playing a model on television, and I love being an actress. I don't think I could ever handle that world.
Sara Paxton
#71. Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I worked with him on a low budget film years ago, and we'd sit around at night while waiting for a shot.
Bill Paxton
#72. I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary to me.
Sara Paxton
#73. Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.
Edwin Paxton Hood
#74. On the Internet, on IMDB, they've got that my middle name as Archibald. I don't have a middle name! My father doesn't like middle names.
Bill Paxton
#75. I've had a life where things have worked out for me beyond my wildest dreams, and my brother's had just the opposite.
Bill Paxton
#76. I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home and watch movies.
Sara Paxton
#77. When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.
Sara Paxton
#78. I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.
Bill Paxton
#79. I don't care how much hardware you throw at an audience. If they are not emotionally invested in the thing, it's zero. I can name a slew of films, but I have no ax to grind. I understand the commerce of Hollywood probably better than anyone.
Bill Paxton
#80. My family has always supported me completely and kept me grounded. I never got lost in child Hollywood actor weirdness.
Sara Paxton
#81. As a school boy I played with a plastic grenade, it was grey and with caps, it was loaded. In the dirt we would cry and dramatically die, as it flew through the air and exploded.
Tom Paxton
#82. Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made a miserable mess of it.
Robert O. Paxton
#83. Since I was a small boy, I was always around the game. I don't play golf much myself, but I love watching it. My father has played golf all his life.
Bill Paxton
#84. Really good comedic roles for women are far and between, with the exception of 'Bridesmaids,' where everyone said it broke down so many doors for women - and it did. I would like to do something like that. I think it would be really great!
Sara Paxton
#85. Some people you don't have to satirize, you just quote 'em.
Tom Paxton
#87. I don't necessarily not believe in ghosts, but I've never seen a ghost. A ghost has never jumped out and been like, 'Hey, how's it going?'
Sara Paxton
#88. Slow motion is so visually cinematic; when you create that, you create it for your audience, you let them have the feeling of what it must be like to be there. And in a movie, you can't forget the audience.
Bill Paxton
#89. No matter who you are, or what you're doing, there's always going to be someone that wants to be better than you. So I try to take the high road and be the bigger person. That way, you always win in the end!
Sara Paxton
#90. Hoarding isn't about how much stuff someone has, it's about how they process those things.
Matt Paxton
#91. I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.
Sara Paxton
#92. I think the French have come to grips with their past, and that was true up until about - until the '70s. And then there were things like the film "The Sorrow And The Pity."
Robert O. Paxton
#93. I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.
Sara Paxton
#94. There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television.
Bill Paxton
#95. Chris Chandler reminds me of my own self way back when -
listen to him Now!
Tom Paxton
#96. The secret of success was to screw up as late as possible. Then look good in a coffin.
Hugh Paxton
#97. There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience.
Edwin Paxton Hood
#98. You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.
Bill Paxton
#99. When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
Bill Paxton
#100. The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.
Sara Paxton
