Welliver Quotes & Sayings

The biggest danger is that actors become entirely too dependent on the idea of training. They think that if they continue to train and train and train, it's going to make them better. — Titus Welliver

I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that gets taken away. You lose your sense of spontaneity. — Titus Welliver

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Magic is dangerous- but love is more dangerous still — Cassandra Clare

She said being able to give life was not something anyone should take for granted. — Anthony Doerr

I literally had a very articulate, though highly impaired, homeless man say to me, "Smokey! I love you! What's happening with Jacob?" Here's a guy living on the street, but he finds a way to watch Lost! And I'm looking at him, thinking, Your priorities are completely ass-backward! — Titus Welliver

Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance. — Neil Welliver

We're antithetical. You use your mind one way; I use mine another. I recognize what you're doing, but I can't imagine it. — Neil Welliver

We do all the things we can to essentially brainwash people into liking it before it actually comes out. — Dave Anthony

The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest. — Titus Welliver

Surfeits of happiness are fatal. — Baltasar Gracian

In that moment, hell may have ascended,
Or heaven may have descended only to save me and prove,
What I carry is an exaggerated memory of an imagined beautiful love.
This love is tainted with treachery; it will be my doom. — Sreesha Divakaran

As an actor, I can still play a cop, but the bullets are fake, I don't have to get injured, and I'm not faced with the day-in-day-out of what cops have to deal with, which is tragic and dangerous. — Titus Welliver

A really good uniformed cop has tremendous people skills, and they learn how to read people. — Titus Welliver

If you don't have the courage to confront, you don't have the right to complain.
Don't wait until anger gives you the courage! — Debra Fox

Maine likes to call itself 'America's Vacationland.' For many artists, though, it's the office. Since the 19th century, painters from all over the country - including Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, John Marin, Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver and Andrew Wyeth - have spent large chunks of time there. — Terry Teachout

Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting? — Neil Welliver

During the next hundred years, the question for those who love liberty is whether we can survive the most insidious and duplicitous attacks from within, from those who undermine the virtues of our people, doing in advance the work of the Father of Lies. "There is no such thing as truth," they teach even the little ones. "Truth is bondage. Believe what seems right to you. There are as many truths as there are individuals. Follow your feelings. Do as you please. Get in touch with your self. Do what feels comfortable." Those who speak in this way prepare the jails of the twenty-first century. They do the work of tyrants. — Michael Novak

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished. — Neil Welliver

I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away. — Walter Lippmann

My daughter lived with my wife being ill since she was 2. — Titus Welliver

When you plan ahead, shit never goes wrong, just in different directions. - Welliver. — James Cox

'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!' — Bayard Taylor