Shahlavi Darren Quotes

#1. You've got to be creative in acting business. But I need people to believe in me first. I've got to make my name as an actor.

Darren Shahlavi

#2. The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

D.T. Suzuki

#3. My family's great and everybody's happy and healthy and my career is good. But personally, I had to sacrifice a lot in my own personal life. And I regret that.

Darren Shahlavi

#4. It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or ideas that have become in some way almost alive and aware.

Alan Moore

#5. Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain -if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.

Richard M. Nixon

#6. At least the girls in stories were alive before they died.

Francesca Lia Block

#7. It's hard to stay flexible if you don't stretch. I think if you train the right way you'll be flexible. There are people that don't appreciate the value of stretching. I think it's very important.

Darren Shahlavi

#8. I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don't really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I've gotten to the point where I'm being offered stuff.

Darren Shahlavi

#9. I'm the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It's just the opposite of love.

Ray Bradbury

#10. Lack of homework shows up in the marketplace as well as in the classroom.

Jim Rohn

#11. Religions fulfill deep-seated psychological needs for people, and if you don't get it from a specific religious doctrine, you'll get it from the kind of films I like to make. A film like The Terminator is consciously meant to give a sense of empowerment to the individual.

James Cameron