Tom Skerritt Quotes

#1. Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

H.G.Wells

#2. Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.

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#3. There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.

David Byrne

#4. It was just something normal in my family to play sports. It wasn't necessarily forced on us. It was just something we enjoyed.

Marc Bulger

#5. A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

W.C. Fields

#6. You think you're fatigued, therefore you can't exercise. In fact, you choose not to move, therefore you feel fatigued.

Tim Ferriss

#7. you can't sue a tsunami ... [on zero alien Disclosure]

Andrew Hennessey

#8. I was an altar boy and a choir member.

Cheech Marin

#9. Just being hired by a great director is complimentary.

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#10. Anniversaries are lies if we forget why the confetti flies.

Gerard Way

#11. Things like that, they're too vicious to die.

Neil Gaiman

#12. I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

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#13. Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

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#14. People naturally are attracted to the best of anything. Top people want to work where the best and most incredible products on the planet are designed, produced, and sold.

Clay Clark

#15. It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

William Wyler

#16. Rarely ever see or meet the writer during shooting.

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#17. As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'.

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#18. One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.

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#19. Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.

John Robbins

#20. It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.

Gilbert N. Lewis

#21. TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.

Tom Skerritt