Stark Sands famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'd love to be on a TV series someday, but I believe you get the jobs that you're meant to get. If the job that I'm meant to get is another musical or another play or film or TV show, I'm just happy to keep working.
-- Stark Sands

#Jobs #Believe #Tv Shows
Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.
-- Stark Sands

#Growing Up #School #Rocks
I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.
-- Stark Sands

#Kids #Gun #Texas
My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'
-- Stark Sands

#Father #Journey #Soldier
I'm more of a strumming guitarist, instead of a lead soloist guitarist.
-- Stark Sands

#Strumming #Guitarist
I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.
-- Stark Sands

#School #Singing #Band
When you fall into a midseason slot, you have the sort of blessing of not being on television while you shoot most of your season.
-- Stark Sands

#Fall #Blessing #Television
I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life.
-- Stark Sands

#Real #Laid Back #Rage

Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.
An artistâ€™s job is to captivateâ€¦ if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".
Rent' was my first professional job, ever.
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.
I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.
Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!"

Stark Sands famous quotes

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