Mapother And Mapother Quotes & Sayings

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. — William Mapother

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others. — William Mapother

I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them. — John Lydon

I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe. — William Mapother

I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact. — William Mapother

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York. — William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions. — William Mapother

Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen. — Matt Tong

The United States, with all her time zones and logos, was the home to so many lonely souls, but none at that particular moment felt such an extraordinary loneliness as Blue Gene Mapother, who felt like someone had just signed the divorce papers that would separate himself from himself. — Joey Goebel

Plants are also integral to reweaving the connection between land and people. A place becomes a home when it sustains you, when it feeds you in body as well as spirit. To recreate a home, the plants must also return. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

This is a horrid generalization, so I'll probably get hate mail from stockbrokers. I would have been forced to get back to work, and would have been less accustomed to being in touch with my feelings and allowing my feelings to drive my decisions and behavior. — William Mapother

I remember when I was working on Mission: Impossible 2, John Woo said, "In Hong Kong, there's not much money and a lot of time. In Hollywood, a lot of money, not much time." Personally I'd prefer not much money, a lot of time. — William Mapother

I write, and when see a movie in which it's supernatural, some other worlds, or some other aspect to our world that we're not aware of, and [they] don't explain what the rules are, that kind of stuff drives me crazy. — William Mapother

Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else. — William Mapother

So I'm here, and not being one for missed opportunities, I made a list of the casting directors in New York and mark off the ones I've already met over the years. The few remaining I asked my agent and manager, "See if you can set up some meetings while I'm here." — William Mapother

If the question was did we want to delay the revelation? ... Yeah, you want to delay it as long as possible because the audience knows that that moment is coming and you want to make them wait for it. They have to suffer a bit. — William Mapother

I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college. — William Mapother

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling. — Evan Williams

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies. — Christopher Walken

They [teachers] beat it right out of me. Or they beat it into me and educated it out of me. I don't know; that's an interesting question. The Catholic schools required work, so I think that may have been where the work ethic came from, in answer to the question of how my character may have been shaped. — William Mapother

Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through. — Angela Carter

Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure. — Marshall McLuhan

I've made a number of independent films that didn't receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven't heard of, and as a result, I've conditioned myself to go into small independent films with the expectation that they will not, and therefore, I have to find my reward elsewhere. — William Mapother

I have lost my rhythm.
I can't sleep.
I can't eat.
I have been robbed of
my filth. — Charles Bukowski

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. — William Mapother

I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both. — William Mapother

Look, we all know how hard it is for us to - I'm going to speak for myself - find a still photo of yourself that you like. Like how many times do people send photos and you're like, "Oh burn it." — William Mapother

Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the way you earn your living, and it's indelible. It's not like writing a script - I write as well - I can't do another draft, it's done. — William Mapother

I feel honored to be a part of something that provided people with entertainment and that inspired conversations. I feel very, very fortunate. — William Mapother

One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into. — William Mapother

When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress infavor of amending the Constitution to give women the suffrage than to praise me endlessly! — Susan B. Anthony

I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology. — William Mapother

It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose ... You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen. — William Mapother

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band. — William Mapother

If you're going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You've got to keep working, and that's where a lot of the work is. — William Mapother

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning. — William Mapother

One of the advantages of shooting digitally was that we had a lot of time. When you shoot, even if you do a good performance, it may get lost in the editing room. It's just one more way that a potentially good film might go astray. — William Mapother

The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak. — Jacques Benigne Bossuel

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power. — William Mapother

I don't so much hope that any reader "agrees" with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are. — Ta-Nehisi Coates