Ali Larter Quotes

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country world that I grew up listening to and that first drew me in. And then I always try to find somewhere for a bluesy guitar sound, because that's also what I love. Musically, I'm always finding my way home.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

When you're lucky enough to have a good film made of your novel - and 'Never Let Me Go' is, believe me, a heartbreakingly good film indeed - you get wonderfully talented individuals each focusing on their special area.

Play as much as you can as often as you can with as many people as you can. That's how you learn and grow.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Donors, like voters, increasingly expect candidates to exercise fiscal discipline.

The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

Cruelty is not a literary value.

They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.

The ephemeral part of this work is that in music production, the sounds evolve so much faster than it used to, which means that you really have to put in a lot of work and effort in constantly designing the next sound that will move the culture forward.

What happens in the heart simply happens.