John Spencer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

  • Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.

  • Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

  • Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.

  • When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

  • I think it's really important to live in the moment.

  • Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

  • I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

  • Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.

  • It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?