Quotes by John Slattery

John Slattery

A painting can’t be everything. You have to stop, at some point. It has to be finished, if you want anyone to see it. Some people just continue to work on things, forever. I don’t know which is better.

Forever

People

Want

And I don’t want to jump out of an airplane – I’ve done that.

Airplane

Done

Want

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

Doors

Mean

Path

Characters can become boring. That’s what’s tricky about television. It goes on and on – you’re playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.

Character

Fall

Play

I do voiceovers, but being on-camera and selling something? I wasn’t really interested. And then I thought, well, wait a minute. Everybody’s selling something. When you turn on the tube… And then if you go to Europe or Asia, everyone is selling something. All the guys that don’t want to be seen selling something here are selling something there. So I thought what the hell?

Europe

Guy

Waiting

I don’t have to worry about how my movies sell because I’m not the guy in front.

Fronts

Guy

Worry

I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It’s really risky.

Bigs

Film

People

I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don’t have that option.

Scene

Television

Trying

I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way.

People

Simple

Thinking

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

Moments

Steps

Thinking

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Average

Beautiful

Bigs

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Crazy

Done

Doors

Emotion

Europe

Eye

Fake

Fall

Fashion

Fighting

Film

Firsts

Forever

Fragrance

Fronts

Get Over Yourself

Good Things

Growing Up

Guy

Hair

Hate

Heart

Insecure

Jobs

Kids

Kind

Limos

Looks

Lost

Mad

Mean

Memories

Men

Mistake

Mom

Moments

Movie

Needs

Over You

Past

Path

People

Phases

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Quotes by John Slattery

John Slattery

A painting can’t be everything. You have to stop, at some point. It has to be finished, if you want anyone to see it. Some people just continue to work on things, forever. I don’t know which is better.

And I don’t want to jump out of an airplane – I’ve done that.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

Characters can become boring. That’s what’s tricky about television. It goes on and on – you’re playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.

I don’t have to worry about how my movies sell because I’m not the guy in front.

I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It’s really risky.

I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don’t have that option.

I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way.

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

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