Tim Blake Nelson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.
-- Tim Blake Nelson

#Life Is #Contradiction #Messy
Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.
-- Tim Blake Nelson

#Drama #Comedy #Surprising
I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist.
-- Tim Blake Nelson

#Artist #Singers #Way
I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life.
-- Tim Blake Nelson

#Oklahoma #Anti Semitism
I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters.
-- Tim Blake Nelson

#Character #Writing #Oklahoma
I think we all live dichotomies. I'm a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.
-- Tim Blake Nelson

#Husband #Father #Writing
I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.
-- Tim Blake Nelson

#Oklahoma #Dollars #Louisiana
I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.
-- Tim Blake Nelson

#Latin #Philosophy #Civilization
I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.
-- Tim Blake Nelson

#Fishing #Snakes #Water
We approach life not just to be able to think about it and talk about it and discover its truths, but also to enjoy it. And so a healthy life really isn't about abstinence or asceticism, it's about enjoying your time on this earth.
-- Tim Blake Nelson

#Thinking #Healthy #Earth

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