Moneyball Cast Quotes & Sayings

There is a reality to the way the actors play the scenes, given that there is a real, animatronic, moving robot in the room. So the level of nuance and realism in performance was higher because we built the real ones, and it keeps the visual effects guys honest. — Shawn Anthony Levy

The way I see it, is the quicker we work together, the quicker you can row, row, row your boats back across the Atlantic. — Rachel Van Dyken

The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self. — Deepak Chopra

I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years. [Said to two governors regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to then-Air Force One steward Robert MacMillan] — Lyndon B. Johnson

There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you - may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone? Not much. What if an actor could do it for you? Isn't that why they are called actors? They act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this sacrifice is a mode of deepest intimacy of you with your own life. Within it you watch [yourself] act out the present or possible organization of your nature. You can be aware of your own awareness of this nature as you never are at the moment of experience. The actor, by reiterating you, sacrifices a moment of his own life in order to give you a story of yours. — Anne Carson

He doesn't move at all. I think he does this on purpose. If he moved, if he even nodded, then there would be no more sides in the room. Everyone would be on the same side. They would be a team. — Matthew Dicks

Consider your body and mind as a machine that runs a program; then be aware of who is writing the program you are running. — Russell Eric Dobda

Vacations and friends are the two best things in life. — Haruki Murakami

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily. — Aravind Adiga

Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it. — Robert Anton Wilson

What if I don't like adventure?
Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That's how you grow. — Wally Lamb

None of us gets to decide where we come from, but we can choose where we go from there. — Debra Driza