Brendan Fraser Quotes

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good. ~ Brendan Fraser

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting. ~ Brendan Fraser

Of course I was a dork, but that's OK. Because all the coolest people I know were dorks. ~ Brendan Fraser

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original. ~ Brendan Fraser

I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it. ~ Brendan Fraser

They had a hard time miking me in my loin cloth, I mean, where were they gonna tape it? ~ Brendan Fraser

...And that, my friend, is why Brendan Fraser sucks. ~ Brian Michael Bendis

As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it. ~ Brendan Fraser

It's nice to know that if you've worked really hard at something, it gets recognised with a tick in the success column - however you define that, be it making a bunch of dough, which the actors never see much of, or whether it's a piece that's enlightening or stays with the audience maybe six, seven or even eight or 10 years later. ~ Brendan Fraser

I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera. ~ Brendan Fraser

The dimensionality of 3D, the depth of field, the dynamism ... it's an immersive experience. And on top of that it's great because the new glasses don't make you want to throw up and they don't give you paper cuts! ~ Brendan Fraser

Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman. ~ Brendan Fraser

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for. ~ Brendan Fraser

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place. ~ Brendan Fraser

I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know. ~ Brendan Fraser

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy. ~ Brendan Fraser

Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce. ~ Brendan Fraser

To swing or not to swing? Swing. ~ Brendan Fraser

I felt a gravitational pull to the material so that there's a certain element of acting that's not really necessary. I've really liked this in foreign movies before or I've observed others working with them and I've noticed that there's a method that goes on where the actors try and get the children, like the child actor, to interact with them in a real way. It seems like you're the adult trying to get the kid to fall in love with him. ~ Brendan Fraser

All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too. ~ Brendan Fraser

You can't see any movie nowadays really without it having some sort of CGI treatment, albeit whether it's a creature or an environment, something like that. To make a point, sort of poetically in that case, but clearly it was a drama and how do you approach it? Well, I think what you're supposed to do is what the text dictates. What you bring to it and everything you need to know should be there, and pay attention to your director. ~ Brendan Fraser

I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me. ~ Brendan Fraser

Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~ Brendan Fraser

I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests. ~ Brendan Fraser

Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world. ~ Brendan Fraser

I haven't been one since I did a film called (coughs) Encino Man (laughing). After two or three runs with Pauly Shore, I had enough. Watching this film in 3D as far as rollercoasters go really fills it for me. ~ Brendan Fraser

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in. ~ Brendan Fraser

When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them. ~ Brendan Fraser

I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters. ~ Brendan Fraser

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States. ~ Brendan Fraser

Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll. ~ Brendan Fraser

In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. ~ Brendan Fraser

I think you have to show homage to creators. ~ Brendan Fraser

I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately. ~ Brendan Fraser

While green-screen work, find a way to stay true to whatever it is that it takes to act a scene out, and make sure that you use your imagination as best as you possibly can, still stay loose, and still allow yourself the liberty of doing what you need to do as an actor, and then work within the confines of what is actually possible. ~ Brendan Fraser

I traveled and worked with amazing actors, like Andy Garcia, Alec Baldwin, Brendan Fraser, Forest Whitaker, Lee Pace. It was this great learning experience. And then, I started watching a lot of television. I was always in these foreign countries and I would get TV shows on DVD, and I started to realize that all of the amazing roles for women were on television. I was spoiled by Buffy because I thought that was the way it was everywhere, and it's not. ~ Sarah Michelle Gellar

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there. ~ Brendan Fraser

Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action ~ Brendan Brazier

I want to catch Mr Whitlam with his pants down. ~ Malcolm Fraser

And sometimes I sit there late at night or early in the morning, and I think about the vastness of the ocean, of the sky, of the spaces between us and the nearest stars, about the incredible, unfathomable bigness of it all. ~ Brendan Halpin

Aye, beg me for mercy, Sassenach. Ye shallna have it, though; not yet. ~ Diana Gabaldon

You put on this set of goggles, and within seconds, your brain is convinced you're now in a different, virtual environment. You're somewhere else, and that somewhere else may be a video game, it may be in a real-time movie, a museum exhibit, or a medical surgical training app. ~ Brendan Iribe

I have a senior staff meeting every day, with key personnel who interface with the players - coaches, the medical staff, our analyst department. This is a useful exercise as it means we are all across what is happening and they are aware of my expectations. ~ Brendan Rodgers

I don't carry cash often. I'm all about the plastic. ~ Brendan Robinson

all that time I save in body hair removal I devote to revolution ~ Janet Fraser

The house swallowed them. Dylan put his hands on Kim's and Liam's shoulders. "The Goddess bless you both." He kissed Kim's forehead. "Thank you Kim."
He smiled and walked away. Liam watched him, his heart full.
"Is he thanking me for getting pregnant?" Kim asked. "It wasn't difficult, with all the sex we kept having. You did as much as I did. ~ Jennifer Ashley

I think it's as though everyone has a small place inside themselves, maybe, a private bit that they keep to themselves. It's like a little fortress, where the most private part of you lives - maybe it's your soul, maybe just that bit makes you yourself and not anyone else. You don't usually show that bit of yourself to anyone, usually, unless sometimes to someone that ye love greatly. ~ Diana Gabaldon

What's that you're doing, Sassenach?"

"Making out little Gizmo's birth certificate--so far as I can," I added.

"Gizmo?" he said doubtfully. "That will be a saint's name?"

"I shouldn't think so, though you never know, what with people named Pantaleon and Onuphrius. Or Ferreolus."

"Ferreolus? I dinna think I ken that one." He leaned back, hands linked over his knee.

"One of my favorites," I told him, carefully filling in the birthdate and time of birth--even that was an estimate, poor thing. There were precisely two bits of unequivocal information on this birth certificate--the date and the name of the doctor who's delivered him.

"Ferreolus," I went on with some new enjoyment, "is the patron saint of sick poultry. Christian martyr. He was a Roman tribune and a secret Christian. Having been found out, he was chained up in the prison cesspool to await trial--I suppose the cells must have been full. Sounds rather daredevil; he slipped his chains and escaped through the sewer. They caught up with him, though, dragged him back and beheaded him."

Jamie looked blank.

"What has that got to do wi' chickens?"

"I haven't the faintest idea. Take it up with the Vatican," I advised him.

"Mmphm. Aye, well, I've always been fond of Saint Guignole, myself." I could see the glint in his eye, but couldn't resist.

"And what's he the patron of?"

"He's involved against ~ Diana Gabaldon

It is a fact that, being a quick reader, apart from enabling a person to study good books such as Macaulay and Gibbon, enables a person to read a lot of bad books as well. ~ Antonia Fraser

And what's wrong wi' the way ye smell?' he said heatedly. 'At least ye smelt like a woman, not a damn flower garden. What d'ye think I am, a man or a bumblebee? Would ye wash yourself, Sassenach, so I can get within less than ten feet of ye? ~ Diana Gabaldon

I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital ... He said, 'You have a gift ... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me. ~ Dawn Fraser

I've invented several games for use as teaching tools in my classroom: one of them, a game called 'Iron Age: Council of the Clans,' got so popular among my students that they encouraged me to publish it, which I did. ~ Brendan Myers

A hardware startup with a lot of funding and a lot of momentum has a lot less risk. ~ Brendan Iribe

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. ~ Brendan Behan

There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself. ~ Brendan Behan

When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more. ~ Laura Fraser

I know it does not matter that I do not understand. ~ Brendan Kennelly

We imagine that some people will jump into the AR and VR space that are complementary. We look at Google Glass. It's very complementary. It's not competitive. It's a different experience. It's used for different purposes. ~ Brendan Iribe

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth. ~ George MacDonald Fraser

English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning. ~ Laura Fraser

If you wait for everyone else to do the right thing before you do the right thing, then you'll never do what's right. You have to do what's right even if other people aren't. Maybe even especially if other people aren't. ~ Brendan Halpin

Your aunt's a handsome woman, Fraser, but she could freeze the ballocks off the King o' Japan, and she wanted to. ~ Diana Gabaldon

This Plantagenet king comes from the devil. ~ Edward Rutherfurd

As an actor, it's exhausting being someone else. It's not physically demanding, but it's mentally demanding, if you do the job the way you should. ~ Brendan Fehr

That's not precisely what I had in mind.
Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl. ~ Diana Gabaldon

All songs are living ghosts. And long for a living voice ~ Brendan Kennelly

Plant foods have several advantages, including easy digestibility and bioavailability (the rate at which the food is absorbed by the body and exerts an effect). Fatigue, bloating, cramping, and an upset stomach can often be attributed to poor digestion. Many whole plant foods have enzymes that facilitate quick and efficient digestion. The quicker nutrients are extracted from the food, the sooner the food can be eliminated - a key factor in optimal health. As well, insoluble fibrous plant matter (discussed in Chapter 5) speeds waste through our system, reducing the risk of toxins settling in the colon and then spreading throughout the body. Enzyme-rich foods help ensure the body makes use of the nutrients in the food. ~ Brendan Brazier

Now, look you here, Sekundar," says I, but he came up straight like a little bantam and cut me off.
"Sir Alexander. if you please," says he icily, as though I'd never seen him with his breeches down, chasing after some big Afghan bint. ~ George MacDonald Fraser

The issue here is not gun control. And it's not even astronomical cost overruns, although those are serious. What's really inexcusable is that Parliament was in the dark. ~ Sheila Fraser

Once we start shooting, it's in there. You're trying to get into a place where you rise to the work, rather than make it manageable or make it work for you. ~ Brendan Gleeson

Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage eventually. ~ Brendan Dooling

A great deal of it is mental, the ability to learn within the game, to perform at a high level - often with injury - and to weather the ups and downs of an emotional game through a 16-game season. Also, there is the willingness to prepare in the offseason, the film room, to learn the scheme and execute without a lot of repetition - that's football character. ~ Brendan Daly

I'm going to be 50 soon. I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful. By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with. ~ Brendan Coyle

Nature finds a way, people. ~ Brendan Reichs

The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god. ~ Brendan Myers

My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too
enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser ~ Diana Gabaldon

Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences. ~ Diana Gabaldon

Over the years, Steve has come to understand I need the clicker. He says it's my security blanket. ~ Brendan Shanahan

Ronnie snarled and Brendon roared back.
Her eyes narrowed. "You roared at me?"
"And I'll do it again if you can't keep your paws off my Oreos. ~ Shelly Laurenston

Before man can explore outer space he should first learn to explore the Inner Space of his mind. ~ Merlin Fraser