Taylor Hackford quote: "When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a stone, and I thought, 'Oh my God, if he doesn't like it I'm dead.' ... And then finally, after 25 minutes he started to talk back to the screen. I heard him say 'That's right. That's the truth.'"

I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.
TAYLOR HACKFORD

I make films about working class people.
TAYLOR HACKFORD

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
TAYLOR HACKFORD

I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confiden...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.
TAYLOR HACKFORD

It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting you...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.
TAYLOR HACKFORD

It's much easier to work with an unknown.
TAYLOR HACKFORD

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always figh...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
TAYLOR HACKFORD

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We'...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of ...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
TAYLOR HACKFORD

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.
TAYLOR HACKFORD

We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.
TAYLOR HACKFORD

Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.
TAYLOR HACKFORD

When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.
TAYLOR HACKFORD

You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.
TAYLOR HACKFORD

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment an...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the musi...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
TAYLOR HACKFORD

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and adv...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into asc...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

But Bruckheimer didn't wilt. He said just do it without them. The great thing for me is that Jerry B...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

When you're working in Hollywood you have these actors who go to their trailers, they're getting pai...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

I trusted my instincts here, but I'm not stupid. The next thing I did was throw him into the shark t...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

If you are making a film about a very famous individual you live or die by the person that's going t...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

I had to go to Ray every year and apologize. And he was so wise in his way, he said, 'Taylor, don't ...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

I heard his story and I thought, 'My God, this is a great subject for a film,'
TAYLOR HACKFORD

I think it speaks to the greatness of the man that he truly gave me the gift of allowing me to tell ...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

The story of Ray Charles is the world underestimating him. ... Everyone ultimately kept saying [to h...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

Staying Alive.
TAYLOR HACKFORD

Supernatural.
TAYLOR HACKFORD

[Carmen] is not a sweet, nice girl. This is a piece about a criminal. We want to do a tough, hard ve...
TAYLOR HACKFORD

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party...
ROD TAYLOR

I think every fight is a tough fight, but I'm not settling for a bronze medal.
KATIE TAYLOR

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're h...
TAYLOR SWIFT

Never judge a stranger by his clothes.
ZACHARY TAYLOR

When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someo...
TAYLOR SWIFT

In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care ...
ZACHARY TAYLOR

I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of D...
ZACHARY TAYLOR

In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain...
ZACHARY TAYLOR

As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and po...
ZACHARY TAYLOR

Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which mon...
ZACHARY TAYLOR

I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the polit...
ZACHARY TAYLOR

The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Repu...
ZACHARY TAYLOR

The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It ha...
ZACHARY TAYLOR

I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.
ZACHARY TAYLOR

I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.
ZACHARY TAYLOR

I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last president...
ZACHARY TAYLOR

My wife was as much of a soldier as I was.
ZACHARY TAYLOR

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
ZACHARY TAYLOR

In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
ZACHARY TAYLOR

The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is po...
ZACHARY TAYLOR

I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, whic...
ZACHARY TAYLOR

Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man ...
ZACHARY TAYLOR

As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so wi...
ZACHARY TAYLOR

I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed ...
TAYLOR WILSON

Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor,...
TAYLOR WILSON

I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the Presiden...
TAYLOR WILSON

I have too many ideas for a lifetime.
TAYLOR WILSON

There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
TAYLOR WILSON

When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what...
TAYLOR WILSON

I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials...
TAYLOR WILSON

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afrai...
TAYLOR WILSON

These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, an...
TAYLOR WILSON

I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years...
TAYLOR WILSON

When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's ki...
TAYLOR WILSON

As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but ...
TAYLOR WILSON

My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. I...
TAYLOR WILSON

I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, bec...
TAYLOR WILSON

I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent int...
TAYLOR WILSON

I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mea...
TAYLOR WILSON

I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you ca...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing p...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very har...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understandi...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometim...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a me...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies tha...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

You know that saying, 'You broke it, you bought it'? With horses, if you don't make sure...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclu...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audien...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing &...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and in...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I think film cannot only teleport you to places you don't know, but it can help you see people y...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple cra...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.
TAYLOR SCHILLING

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but no...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
TAYLOR SCHILLING

I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorne...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
TAYLOR SCHILLING

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

Massages are my favorite. Sometimes just getting myself outside for a walk if I'm really busy ca...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about house...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do thin...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
TAYLOR SCHILLING

I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very s...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you ne...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

Coffee makes me go crazy.
TAYLOR SCHILLING

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, '...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel g...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow. Whatever that looks li...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time i...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.
TAYLOR SCHILLING

I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games ver...
TAYLOR PHINNEY

There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for ...
TAYLOR PHINNEY

It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who yo...
TAYLOR PHINNEY

I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.
TAYLOR PHINNEY

I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
TAYLOR PHINNEY

I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after th...
TAYLOR PHINNEY

When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potential...
TAYLOR PHINNEY

I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religi...
TAYLOR NEGRON

Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
TAYLOR NEGRON

We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about o...
TAYLOR NEGRON

I personally won't have anything live in my house that can't move the car on street-sweeping...
TAYLOR NEGRON

When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the peopl...
TAYLOR NEGRON

I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives ...
TAYLOR NEGRON

I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.
TAYLOR NEGRON

I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.
TAYLOR NEGRON

Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed und...
TAYLOR NEGRON

Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5'...
TAYLOR NEGRON

In Beverly Hills, around 3 P.M. on Bedford Drive, a strange rite occurs. All the men and women who h...
TAYLOR NEGRON

As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereot...
TAYLOR NEGRON

I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living he...
TAYLOR NEGRON

I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called ...
TAYLOR NEGRON

I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of sa...
TAYLOR NEGRON

My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
TAYLOR NEGRON

My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles wh...
TAYLOR NEGRON

These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cut...
TAYLOR NEGRON

For a long time, I lived in West Hollywood and watched young gay men strolling through life having n...
TAYLOR NEGRON

Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How mu...
TAYLOR NEGRON

To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a ...
TAYLOR NEGRON

I've always loved silent movies. I recently saw 'Tilly's Punctured Romance' at the A...
TAYLOR NEGRON

I think people are obsessed with their pets because pets don't speak. It's that simple. Afte...
TAYLOR NEGRON

I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
TAYLOR NEGRON

I do think Jesus would skip church on Sunday morning and instead visit the nursing homes and retirem...
TAYLOR NEGRON

The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and...
TAYLOR MALI

I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters...
TAYLOR MALI

One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are m...
TAYLOR MALI

The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
TAYLOR MALI

When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was ac...
TAYLOR MALI

Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving ...
TAYLOR MALI

If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteou...
TAYLOR MALI

I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career withou...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. Sh...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm look...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

I got the famous Oprah hug!
TAYLOR LAUTNER

If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm ...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

My favorite movie is 'Iron Man.' I tell people that I think it's just as good as 'Da...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff g...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smil...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

I signed this girl's arm. And the next day, a family member shot me an email, and it was a link ...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love tho...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

It's important to work through things in a relationship. You can't just give up because you&...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
TAYLOR LAUTNER

I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'Th...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or th...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark d...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.
TAYLOR LAUTNER

Filming 'Eclipse' - Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming th...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

There's some things you just have to live with. Like twelve cars camping outside your house, and...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they...
TAYLOR LAUTNER

You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.
TAYLOR LAUTNER

When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you'...
TAYLOR KITSCH

I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box of...
TAYLOR KITSCH

I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot...
TAYLOR KITSCH

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of wh...
TAYLOR KITSCH

I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I...
TAYLOR KITSCH

I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a ...
TAYLOR KITSCH

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film came...
TAYLOR KITSCH

A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the cr...
TAYLOR KITSCH

There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quit...
TAYLOR KITSCH

You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
TAYLOR KITSCH

I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever see...
TAYLOR KITSCH

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