Dave Kevin Kline Quotes

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. ~ Kevin Kline

Dogs do have feelings, I gather. ~ Kevin Kline

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood. ~ Kevin Kline

To all the staff members that take care of us every single day, From Donnie Strack, to Joe Sharpe, Tony Katz, Dave Bliss, Josh Longstaff, Will, Wilson, St, Mark, Dwight, I could down the line, All you guys have made me a better player. I wish I had a Sharpie, So I could write all your names on here 'Cause you had a hand on this. You made me believe in myself. You made me a better person, A better player. Your words of encouragement, Your love, Your positivity, Got me through. And I thank you guys. ~ Kevin Durant

I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine. ~ Kevin Kline

People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one. ~ Kevin Kline

The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height. ~ Kevin Kline

When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters. ~ Kevin Kline

Well, the whole trick to doing an independent film, is to keep great pace and momentum. You're shooting maybe three times as many scenes in one day that you would on a big, luxurious budget on a luxurious schedule, and you try not to sacrifice quality for that. Things are just compressed, but essentially the same. ~ Kevin Kline

I wanted to the best player in the state - [the best] the area has ever seen. That's always been my goal. Guys like Elgin Baylor, Adrian Dantley and Dave Bing, it's tough to pass those guys. So I'm studying, working. My project's not over yet. Hopefully, I get there. ~ Kevin Durant

Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought "Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!" That's not what I saw necessarily but I don't think any two people see the same movie. ~ Kevin Kline

There's an interesting story around that ["Heaven Without a Gun"], because the girl I was dating at the time got into a bike accident and couldn't make it into the studio, and the gentleman Dave Hamlin who worked on this record along with Ohad sort of took it, rearranged it. Dave went and sonically changed it and changed the keys so that Andy could sing it better. All these pieces came together that suddenly displayed that the song was meant for Andy [Kim] to sing. And he always said, "I'll never understand it, but I'll sing it with all my heart." ~ Kevin Drew

The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success. ~ Kevin Kline

But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage. ~ Kevin Kline

I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that. ~ Kevin Kline

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre. ~ Kevin Kline

My greatest desire was to be in a sandbox with Kevin Kline or Kenneth Branagh - to be with the people I admired - and I have. ~ Robert Sean Leonard

Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president ... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that they'd remain true to themselves. ~ Kevin Kline

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which. ~ Kevin Kline

Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant. ~ Kevin Kline

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano. ~ Kevin Kline

Ambition without contribution is of no significance. ~ Kevin Kline

You know, actors are fans, too. And talent is very attractive to me. ~ Kevin Kline

I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving. ~ Kevin Kline

It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes. ~ Kevin Kline

I wondered quickly if I'd give my life so that a dragon could live. If someone offered me that deal, your life for the existence of dragons.I thought maybe yes, maybe no. ~ Dave Eggers

There is funny ha-ha, and there is funny peculiar, and beneath a trapdoor in Kevin's mind is a place where the two blur together, the place of jokes, churning so furiously frequently, when it kicks up a line, he has no idea what it will turn out to be. ~ Kevin Brockmeier

You never really know. Lately Kevin has been bothering himself with the idea that nothing is certain, nothing can be proven. Not one thing, not in all the world. The sun will rise tomorrow. Prove it. The sun rose this morning. Prove it. The sun is in the sky. Prove it. There's a sun at all. Prove it. The world is like a box of Kleenex, every doubt pulling another along behind it. You can always find a new reason to distrust the facts. ~ Kevin Brockmeier

I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having more mature students who proactively draw from faculty what they know they need, and by having faculty who are willing to leave their ivory towers for the murky world of business reality. Unfortunately, at other times, business professors have little or not interest or savvy about business issues. ~ Dave Ulrich

One of the reasons the team on NCIS works so well-is that they live by their leader's rules-which are not a secret .
What are your rules/standards? Do the people in your life know what they are? Do you hold grudges/resentments when they don't measure up? Do you pretend that everything is fine-when it's not-and close up a little every day?
And most importantly-
When was the last time YOU reviewed/upgraded your standards/expectations rules-and took a look at the impact around you/checked in?
(Hint-most people live from rules/standards/expectations created from reactions/perceptions formed around the age of six)
Might be time for a review/upgrade ... ~ Dave Rudbarg

Since I'm doing so much science, I think the reason these ideas have occurred to me and not to other people in music is simply the influence that science plays in my life: working in laboratories, thinking of models, hypothesis, putting things together, trying to make sense of it all and so forth. ~ Dave Soldier

The higher up I went, the less happy I was. ~ Dave Chappelle

I plan my life in 15-minute sections. ~ Dave Pelzer

She looks at me and at Dave. She looks out the curtain and strums her guitar. "Yeah," she says. "Oh yeah. This I can do. ~ Cath Crowley

The victors' view of history rarely matches that of the vanquished. ~ Kevin Hearne

Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat. ~ Dave Pelzer

Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption. ~ Christina Baker Kline

There is no best, there is always a better. ~ Kevin Karschnik

Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that it provides spiritual values. It puts man in touch with the highest aspirations and lofiest goals. It offers intellectual delight and the exultation of resolving the mysteries of the universe. ~ Morris Kline

I love creating opportunities for people. I think it's my orphan mentality. ~ Kevin McCollum

Fear should be an advisor whose counsel is weighed carefully, not a leader whose commands are followed blindly. ~ Kevin A. Kuhn

You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures' authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God. ~ Kevin DeYoung

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault - they watched the foot come towards their face. ~ Kevin Hart