Whitesell Quotes & Sayings

I've been part of really big things that are amazing, but I haven't taken on that responsibility yet. So I don't want to sell myself short by having a kid and then regret not doing what I set out to do. — Michelle Rodriguez

Just because a feeling is natural does not mean it should be indulged. — Roseanna M. White

TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs. — Patrick Whitesell

Life was good before I met the monster. After, life was great At least for a little while — Ellen Hopkins

If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom. — Patrick Whitesell

We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves. — Patrick Whitesell

There is a fairly common pattern in this field where folks go through about three distinct stages. it true of other areas.
1. You know that you know nothing: here you pretty much just use someone else's canned workouts since you don't know what you're doing
2. You know just enough to be dangerous. This is when everybody starts overcomplicating things. You see these insanely complicated training programs and periodization schemes. Lots of charts, graphs and flowcharts.
3. You realize that the above doesn't matter 999 times out of 1000 and you go back to keeping it simple. You realize that hard work on the basics + talent + time > everything else. — Lyle McDonald

If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. And we all fear change. So as I say, it is not an easy thing to permit oneself to understand an individual, — Carl R. Rogers

I sometimes think of people's personalities as the negative space around their insecurities. — Lindy West

If you look at professional baseball in New York, you can get all 162 Yankee games on television anytime you want. But people still go to the ballpark because they are two different experiences. It's the same with film. — Patrick Whitesell

We're in the service business by nature, but when we can transition that into ownership things, we love it. Our clients love it, too. We get deluged with offers to get involved with this or that. Silver Lake helps us funnel those opportunities. — Patrick Whitesell

It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.' — Patrick Whitesell

With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet. — Patrick Whitesell

I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers. — Patrick Whitesell

I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance. — Patrick Whitesell

There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money ... Jennifer Lawrence ... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in. — Patrick Whitesell

No relationship can survive without trust, honesty, and communication, no matter how close you are. — J. Sterling

I think abortion's wrong, but it's none of my business to tell somebody what's wrong, he said. So I'm pro-choice. I want to keep my nose out of other people's personal business. I guess I fall into conservative when it comes to protecting the United States in a world where a lot of people hate the United States. — Dennis Miller

I don't think Hollywood will be the place that innovates great technology, but if people underestimate how they monetize content, they're sorely mistaken. — Patrick Whitesell

Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations. — Patrick Whitesell

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads. — Charles Baxter

Red Interactive, the digital advertising agency, is a real, systemic kind of business, as opposed to a one-off thing. We can help advertisers frustrated by old media find clients they can work with. — Patrick Whitesell

Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it. — Patrick Whitesell

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. — Joseph Joubert

I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do. — Patrick Whitesell

I hate golf. It's the genteel version of seal-clubbing, only not as much fun. — Lauren Beukes

If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn't feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand. — Patrick Whitesell

I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I personally didn't want to be on it because everybody in the world tries to get to you with scripts. — Patrick Whitesell

My heart in an uproar. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When you live in a small town like Iowa Falls, there's not a lot to do, so we would, as a family, watch a ton of films. — Patrick Whitesell

Mom as it's your birthday
And, unfortunately, not mine
Give me some money and I'll get out your hair
While you have a large glass of wine
I try so hard to be thoughtful — John Walter Bratton

We're in conversations with brands worldwide for a variety of artists every day. — Patrick Whitesell

In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire. — Patrick Whitesell

Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me ... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment. — Janet Evanovich

We've got to be proactive. It's my job to look for unconventional situations that achieve what my clients want. — Patrick Whitesell