Top 42 Tony Goldwyn Quotes
#3. I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?
Tony Goldwyn
#5. I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.
Tony Goldwyn
#6. But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?
Walter Scott
#7. I crawled between the mattress and the padded bedstead and let the mattress fall across me like a tombstone. It felt dark and safe under there, but the mattress was not heavy enough. It needed about a ton more weight to make me sleep.
Sylvia Plath
#8. I've got a job to do, and I'm going to be judged upon whether or not the world is more peaceful and whether or not America is more prosperous and more compassionate.
George W. Bush
#9. All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#10. Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#11. I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.
Tony Goldwyn
#12. We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.
Tony Goldwyn
#13. If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level.
Tony Goldwyn
#14. My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.
Tony Goldwyn
#15. I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.
Tony Goldwyn
#16. Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.
Tony Goldwyn
#17. The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.
Cindy Crawford
#19. I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.
Tony Goldwyn
#20. Every friend we have represents a new world, a world that may not have existed had they not come into our life.
Steven Aitchison
#21. My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.
Tony Goldwyn
#22. I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I got to know Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck very well - he's a character in the movie - and I got very passionate about the cause. It's just so inherently dramatic.
Tony Goldwyn
#23. It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you're sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout the season.
Tony Goldwyn
#24. I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.
Tony Goldwyn
#25. I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an ideal is so extraordinary, but the way it actually works can be mind-boggling.
Tony Goldwyn
#26. In television, the creator is really the voice.
Tony Goldwyn
#27. Even when a pilot goes, you shoot it in March or April, and then you have to rush it through post-production by May. If they greenlight it, then you go and there's no time to think about it. And then, you've gotta start shooting in July, so you're off to the races.
Tony Goldwyn
#28. I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.
Kevin J. Anderson
#29. Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.
Tony Goldwyn
#30. I'm an only child. Mostly raised by my father outside of Saratoga, doing martial arts and snowmobiling. I wore sweaters, jeans and sneakers. I was more interested in four-wheeling in the Catskills than doing my hair and makeup at 7 A.M. before school.
JWoww
#31. My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that.
Tony Goldwyn
#32. I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.
Tony Goldwyn
#33. This year's Olympics will be replacing the women's beach volleyball bikinis with uniforms that are less revealing. The stricter dress code was made to appease the conservative nation of 'Buzzkillistan.'
Conan O'Brien
#34. The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen.
Tony Goldwyn
#35. No matter how lucky a person is, the moment he decides he wants to die, there's nothing that will keep him alive.
Yu Hua
#36. I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another.
Tony Goldwyn
#37. I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Tony Goldwyn
#38. I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.
Tony Goldwyn
#39. I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.
Tony Goldwyn
#40. One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.
Tony Goldwyn
#41. The majority of the American population had questioned the justification for the war in Vietnam. They did not appreciate the government's rationale for sending American boys to die halfway around the world; communists in Vietnam had absolutely nothing to do with them.
Calvin Murphy
#42. Once you go Kerry Washington, you can't go back
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