Huisman Michiel Quotes & Sayings

You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard. — Euripides

I think it's hard to convince an audience of some sort of chemistry if you really don't get along. — Michiel Huisman

Ginny came in to visit while you were unconscious, he said, after a long pause, and Harry's imagination zoomed into overdrive, rapidly constructing a scene in which Ginny, weeking over his lifeless form, confessed her feelings of deep attraction to him while Ron gave them his blessing ... — J.K. Rowling

A glacier will frequently move forward one foot while retreating three feet ... Which reminds me a lot of myself! — Charles M. Schulz

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind. — Michiel Huisman

I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature. — Michiel Huisman

Take a seat, Charlie," he said. "I'll kill you in a few minutes. It'll be good for you. — Frederick Weisel

Stepping on set is always overwhelming. — Michiel Huisman

It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing. — Michiel Huisman

When stripped and shiny in the mist of the bath house, his bold virilia contrasted harshly with his girlish grace. He was a regular faunlet. — Vladimir Nabokov

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense. — Michiel Huisman

The Age of Adaline was very special because it marks for me the first male lead on a proper Hollywood production. — Michiel Huisman

I learned English at school, or at least that's how it started. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European countries - we don't dub anything, so as a kid growing up, always watching English and American movies in their original language really helped. — Michiel Huisman

The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible. — Michiel Huisman

I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think. — Michiel Huisman

Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music. — Michiel Huisman

Chapter 8 - The Rescue Team: "Timbroke Hall was completely dark. A creaking shutter opened and closed to the rhythm of a howling, north wind. It bore a cold reminder of the harsh winter coming quickly this year. The children crept up the rock stairs to the familiar wooden doors at the front of the building. Ariana led them around the porch to a side door according to her, was never locked. The broken handle dangled loosely and offered free entrance. The team cautiously crossed the threshold of the old hall into pitch blackness. An owl hooted and the sound of large wings flapping reverberated around them. Camilla startled, cried out a fearful yelp causing everyone to jump. Hannah reflexively covered Camilla's mouth until she was certain nothing more would slip out. "Quiet," whispered Jess in an angry tone directed at Hannah. "It wasn't me," whispered Hannah pointing down at Camilla. "Sorry," whispered Camilla apologetically. — M.K. McDaniel

There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me. — Michiel Huisman

To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves. — John Stuart Mill

It's not too hard to disappear when no one's looking for you. — John Corey Whaley

Rutger Hauer is a very famous Dutch actor who did quite a lot internationally. Another Dutch actress who is working a lot is called Famke Janssen. There's a few more. — Michiel Huisman

The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other. — Michiel Huisman

I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing guitar, I'd be playing soccer, and I would be acting in movies. — Michiel Huisman

I started acting as a kid and doing advertising campaigns. I was probably 8 years old, and I really liked the attention. — Michiel Huisman

Growing up in Holland, I always thought my name was boring, but in the U.S., all of a sudden I have a very cool name. — Michiel Huisman

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work. — Michiel Huisman

TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story. — Michiel Huisman

I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else. — Banana Yoshimoto

There is no real world, just the one you create. — Jolene Stockman

I went on to host a kids' program from when I was around 10 until 15. In some ways I'm a child actor. — Michiel Huisman

When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible. — Michiel Huisman

My beacon is gone and I'm drowning now. The storm is all around me and I can't even save myself. I don't even know if I want to.
She's gone. — David Levithan

I'm always repeating myself. You never just do a scene once, you do it an insane amount of times. — Michiel Huisman

Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was 16 and spent most of his life in Vienna. He's the key composer between classic music and romantic music. Beethoven was the beginning of romantic music, and he was the teacher of Beethoven and Schubert. — Cecilia Bartoli

Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness. — Epicurus

I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and you can start doing things like you would do. — Michiel Huisman