Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" When I first came to Hollywood, I played about as many guys who save the day and get the girl as I played heavies. It's just that heavies are more interesting and last in people's minds. "

Powers Boothe

Minds

Interesting

Girl

Related Quotes:

" Sometimes, I feel like directors look at me and say, 'I want to put that boy in the jungle. I want to hurt him.' "

Powers Boothe

Hurt

Look

" Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me. Some of my choices have been more successful than others. "

" I've had presidents in my lifetime - and I'm old enough to have seen several - that I really detested, but they're still my president. I've had presidents that I've really liked. "

" If you're down, it's curse; if you're up, it's a blessing. "

" You don't do classics with a Texas accent. "

" I've got a family, and I love them, and I want them to have the best opportunities in the best country in the world, and I think we have to fight for it. "

" I was raised a proper Southern boy. "

" If I rob a gas station, I'm going to get 15 years. If I steal $400 million on Wall Street, I start plea-bargaining. "

" Some stars can make five or six failures in a row and continue to work - with a raise. I can't figure how that works. Maybe foreign sales or a smart agent. "

" When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was out of whack, the entire one-page speech didn't work. "

Powers Boothe

Long

Work

" Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do. "

" Everyone has this vision of Jones as a maniacal ogre. Wrong. He was charming, sweet, and a fabulous speaker. "

" If there is anything I am about, it is I want justice in society. "

" I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it also to prove your manhood. They all couldn't conceive of why I'd want to stop to do 'The Importance of Being Earnest.' "

" Before I accept a job, I always talk to folks about it. 'Why does he kill these 22 people?' If they say, 'What difference does it make?' I know we have nothing more to talk about. A character has to be three-dimensional. "

" I wanted to be in 'The Emerald Forest.' I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman! "

" When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man. "

" I've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say. "

" One thing that's thematically consistent in 'Sin City' is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we're singing the same song. "

Powers Boothe

Song

Singing

" I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring. "

" I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school. "

" I've auditioned five or six times. I'm not very good at it. "

" I'm really enjoying the character now, but I don't want to just be Philip Marlowe. I wouldn't mind playing him every couple of years, perhaps, as a kind of open franchise - you know? "

" That joy of a creative environment, without any restrictions, is hard to leave. "

" I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent. "

" I have always been attracted to good scripts and try hard to make characters as believable as possible. That means trying to figure out how they would react to situations, what they eat, think, and feel. "

" The office of the presidency is what's important, no matter who's in it. "

" I come prepared when I come to work. Not just knowing the lines, but I think I know something about what I do. "

" I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual. "

" We all want to pretend that there isn't evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren't people trying to take us out and different things like that. "

Powers Boothe

Trying

Want