Philip Baker Hall famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.
-- Philip Baker Hall

#School #High School
I think the thing that interests most actors these days is the strength and the quality of the writing. I think that's the main thing.
-- Philip Baker Hall

#Writing #Thinking #Quality
The bigger the budget, the more people that you have to coordinate and it's not easy to do that always because, not only do people have trouble communicating in that way, but often there are internal disagreements and everybody is not necessarily on the same page. Even in a big-budget movie with famous actors and directors, everybody could be on a completely different page. The director has to figure out a way of getting everybody on the same page, more or less, and keeping them there.
-- Philip Baker Hall

#People #Different #Trouble

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense." --Sam Seaborne, West Wing
I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late â€™90s!
I'm not good for you. I don't know why you make me want you so bad. I was angry with myself when I said all that earlier. I was mad because I wanted you in a way I'd never experienced before. Before you, I just wanted to excel in football and school. I wanted my parents to be proud of me. But now, I want other things too. You get to me in a way I don't understand
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd.
I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.

Philip Baker Hall famous quotes

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