Best Magyar Quotes & Sayings

I've been an actor since I was a kid. — Derek Magyar

If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that. — Derek Magyar

There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors. — Derek Magyar

[Theodore] Roosevelt had long ago discovered that the more provincial the supplicants, the less able were they to understand that their need was not unique: that he was not yearning to travel two thousand miles on bad trains to support the reelection campaign of a county sheriff, or to address the congregation of a new chapel in a landscape with no trees. His refusal, no matter how elaborately apologetic, was received more often in puzzlement than anger. Imaginatively challenged folks, for whom crossing a state line amounted to foreign travel, could not conceive that the gray-blue eyes inspecting them had, over the past year, similarly scrutinized Nandi warriors, Arab mullahs, Magyar landowners, French marshals, Prussian academics, or practically any monarch or minister of consequence in Europe -- not to mention the maquettes in Rodin's studio, and whatever dark truths flickered in the gaze of dying lions.

From COLONEL ROOSEVELT, p. 104. — Edmund Morris

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go. — Derek Magyar

I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened. — Derek Magyar

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate. — Bela Kun

In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar, Slavic or Jewish. — Franz Liszt

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects. — Derek Magyar

Going into my second film as a director, it's night and day of what it was like going into my first film. It doesn't matter what you know in your head and what you've been taught until you're there and doing it; it's a whole new ball game. — Derek Magyar

I approach directing from an actor's standpoint. — Derek Magyar

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film. — Derek Magyar

I love directing; it felt right to me when I did 'Flying Lessons'. It's something I will do again. Really, you can always be working and developing. That's something that's kind of ever constant. — Derek Magyar

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking. — Derek Magyar

CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to. — Derek Magyar