Parisse Quotes & Sayings

Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't ... Or in society, in the world. They're people who don't feel guilt. They're people who don't feel fear. I think that most of us feel those things. There's a kind of ... They're almost like superheroes. Not to glorify them, but you know what I mean? — Annie Parisse

I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this. — Kelly Preston

How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember ... No lasting joke, invention, insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory ... Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory. Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it's about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estranged ... memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human. — Joshua Foer

You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything. — Annie Parisse

One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years. — Annie Parisse

It's always a little nerve-wracking to do a love scene, more than anything because it's just awkward. — Annie Parisse

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter. — Annie Parisse

The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it. — Kelly Lynch

I'm usually cast as the sassy, brassy best friend. — Annie Parisse

One man's cult is another man's religion. — Annie Parisse

One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology. — Annie Parisse

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process. — Annie Parisse

Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership. — Simon Sinek

'Clybourne Park' was my first job after the birth of my son, who was 11 weeks old when we started rehearsals. And while that was truly harder than anything I've ever done, I was grateful every day to be going to work on such an incredible play, with such a generous, intelligent, supportive group of people. — Annie Parisse

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on. — Brenda Lee

An ordinary man would have been unable to maintain his balance there, to say nothing of holding on with such narrow support. But the Green Lama had held more difficult positions, according to the Yoga, for hours. — Kendell Foster Crossen

I've played a bunch of different versions of Walter [from Fringe].I loved it when he was being random, which was probably the original version of him, more than anyone else. I loved doing Walter then, and all of the different mental states that we've played. — John Noble

Reading a play, you view yourself as part of a whole. You see where the whole thing is going, and so you're willing to go to the very ugly place that your heart may go in order to serve the whole. — Annie Parisse

I am Darkness. I am Shadow. I am the Ruler of the Night. I, alone, stand between mankind and those who would see mankind destroyed. I am the Guardian. The Soulless Keeper. Neither Human, nor Apollite, I exist beyond the realm of the Living, beyond the realm of the Dead. I am the Dark-Hunter. And I am Eternal ... unless I find that one pure heart who will never betray me. The one whose faith and courage can return my soul to me and bring me back into the light. (Dark-Hunter Creed) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

That's the kind of TV I like to watch, where you just don't know what's going to happen. — Annie Parisse

I'm a big fan of horror, personally. — Annie Parisse

With great pleasure she did what was forbidden, because the great advantage of being there was not having to respect the rules and not even having to put up with any major consequences if you broke them. — Paulo Coelho

I guess the reason that I'm a horror fan is that I think it gives people the opportunity to enjoy the feeling of being scared in a safe environment. I think that's why, for all of human history, we've been telling each other scary stories: because it exorcises something that we need to exorcise in a safe place. — Annie Parisse