Slattery Quotes & Sayings

I have been to so many funerals now. We bury them in the gray soil, stand over the mounds, lean on our shovels. Say the same words again and again. But there are pregnancies too, children coming. A woman like a great egg. Another just conceived. They help us dig, then turn and spit into the earth. They will not say it, but they cannot keep it all in either. For their coming children are their hopes embodied, their faith made flesh, that all that is ending is beginning again. For the world will not be fallen to their children. It will only be the world, new as they are. And perhaps if we tell them enough, if we say the right thing, they will see a way out, and know what to do. — Brian Francis Slattery

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too. — John Slattery

These cords that God makes, Reverend Bauxite thought, we stand holding one end while they run taut into the darkness. — Brian Francis Slattery

The war keeps taking pieces of me anyway. Makes the rest of me harder to hit. — Brian Francis Slattery

I felt strong for once. I felt like I could do anything. Be anything. — Laura-Louise Slattery

I'm a little kid at heart, so my eyes light up when everything is lit. — John Slattery

I've dyed my hair a million times and it looks terrible, always. It just looks fake. And it doesn't make me look that much younger. — John Slattery

I've done a lot of pilots. A lot of shows. You're young and you do a job just because you know someone gave you a job. — John Slattery

When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered. — John Slattery

Life is like a thunderstorm, Sunny. You will lay in happiness one second, be torn asunder the next. What makes you who are is what you do when that thunderstorm arrives. You must gaze into that thunderstorm and stand up to it no matter where it takes you.
For they will see you as I see you, a hero. — Laura-Louise Slattery

You know," she had said, "I believe we are all given at least one moment in our lives when the world reveals itself to us, in all its workings. We comprehend everything at once, and then forget almost all of it a second later, because none of us could hold it all in our heads. But we are changed afterward," shaking her head, "in a most profound way. — Brian Francis Slattery

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed. — John Slattery

I don't have to worry about how my movies sell because I'm not the guy in front. — John Slattery

I do voiceovers, but being on-camera and selling something? I wasn't really interested. And then I thought, well, wait a minute. Everybody's selling something. When you turn on the tube ... And then if you go to Europe or Asia, everyone is selling something. All the guys that don't want to be seen selling something here are selling something there. So I thought what the hell? — John Slattery

Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene. — John Slattery

His voice, what he said, remains, and it is here, all of those voices are here, in what I am telling you. If in the beginning there was the word, then perhaps, with humility at the smallness of our powers, in words a small part of us can return. — Brian Francis Slattery

Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone. — John Slattery

There must be something better than this world, and the world must be better than this. — Brian Francis Slattery

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk. — John Slattery

I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis. — John Slattery

If [being confident stems from] a self-esteem issue, it's important to embrace the things you might define as so-called imperfections - because something that you might call an imperfection, someone else might find so amazing and so beautiful. It's all in how you embrace yourself, your faults, and your mistakes in life. There's no better way to learn and become a better person than to go through those moments. — John Slattery

Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him. — John Slattery

What Slattery wants is a ring painted on concrete in the empty desert. With no living spectator around for miles, just him and the grinning demons. A chance to fight them each, one by one ... to leave them broken and humbled, or even to lose the fights, but with nobility, and earn the respect of all the men who have showed him none. I want peace, he thinks to himself late at night. I want peace. But then he dreams of fistfights. — David Benioff

The good thing about directing yourself is that you get over yourself. — John Slattery

One of Satan's most seductive traps is convincing us that we cannot do what we will not do. — Julianna Slattery

They tried to tell us that what happened to them would happen to us, too, but we could not hear the message. Mistook it for nostalgia, when they were speaking prophecy. — Brian Francis Slattery

For some reason surfing ... I'm not scared of the ocean so the risk doesn't seem as great to me. — John Slattery

I had the suit. All I needed was a name. — Laura-Louise Slattery

Marco smiles, they shake hands, and Robert Blackfeather Sherman sees it again, as he did when Marco knelt before him just a few minutes ago: The light warps around Marco Angelo Oliveira; the colors of the trees and sky stretch and smear, as if Marco is an empty place in the shape of a man and the earth and air around him are screaming to fill it. — Brian Francis Slattery

Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing. — Brian Francis Slattery

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions. — John Slattery

I'm proud of myself that I had the courage to experiment with crazy hairstyles and some fashion things. — John Slattery

We do not know what is on the other side of the storm. — Brian Francis Slattery

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors. — John Slattery

A painting can't be everything. You have to stop, at some point. It has to be finished, if you want anyone to see it. Some people just continue to work on things, forever. I don't know which is better. — John Slattery

We all went through that teen phase of wearing that really soft fragrance. As I got older, I started loving men's fragrances and cologne. I was so attracted to men's cologne; I would spray it all over me. — John Slattery

Nothing of it spoken between them. They could read it on each other, their faces wrinkled pages. Words hiding in the folds of their clothes. She was made of letters then, as all of us are now. Here, in these words. Us and the city and the towns and river, and everything else, too. All that we know, and everything - everyone - we wish we knew. — Brian Francis Slattery

The war was about everything, it was everything, and the question of where it came from was meaningless. There was only the question of how to live through it. — Brian Francis Slattery

You have to fight for what you need to fight for. — John Slattery

They could read it on each other, their faces wrinkled pages. Words hiding in the folds of their clothes. She was made of letters then, as all of us are now. — Brian Francis Slattery

Your sexuality was never meant to be separate from your deepest spiritual and relational longings but to be an expression of them. — Juli Slattery

My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son. — John Slattery

You put a movie star or a bunch of movie stars in a movie, it doesn't mean people are gonna go see it. It's been proven time and time again. — John Slattery

In an entirely causal universe, what a person thinks is dictated before that person even exists. — 'Trick Slattery

My mom used to wear the fragrance Poison when I was younger, and I remember that scent and the purple bottle. That was my first [perfume] memory. — John Slattery

And I don't want to jump out of an airplane - I've done that. — John Slattery

It is not society itself that the Epicurean recoils from; it is this society of unceasing struggle for more and more. — Luke Slattery

I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way. — John Slattery

The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings. — Brian Francis Slattery

The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things. — Luke Slattery

I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option. — John Slattery

Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled. — Brian Francis Slattery

She imagined sometimes that kindness would come as an annihilating flood. Drown the war and us with it, recede just when we were on the edge of death. Leave us lying faceup on the ground, staring into the brilliant sky. Thankful for every breath. — Brian Francis Slattery

The rule of surfing is never tell anyone where you go. — John Slattery

There are no words for so much loss, not right after it happens. — Brian Francis Slattery

Opinions are like feet. Everybody's got a couple, and they usually stink. — Jim Slattery

My powers make me strong, but my choices make me stronger. — Laura-Louise Slattery

I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It's really risky. — John Slattery