D.X. Logan Quotes

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?

I started doing roles and working with people that I really respected and became passionate about the art form of acting. And I'm still trying to figure it out. Still learning.

Behind the scenes there is a secretive, undeclared war of revenge that's already under way.

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

When I receive a new role, I completely become my character.

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

I love learning from the filmmakers that I'm working with, but more importantly, I love learning from the crew.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

Flying is like the ultimate superpower; it's just, like, the coolest thing.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

When I'm back at home it's just reality. I kind of separate myself from Hollywood.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

It's tough. I mean the thing is that people don't realize how much people are looking at you and judging you and constantly try to, I guess, watch you fail, and hoping you do fail.

I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for... what was it called?... Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.

My whole family is really tight-knit. We're a really good team.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

I like Katy Perry. I mean, what is there not to like?! She's crazy, she's fun and she has some crazy pipes on her. She can sing.

Just date people you like, then you're guaranteed to have fun.

I don't really get nervous, ever. I just have a good time.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

I think a little bit of competition is always good.

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

I know what it means to be Jewish, and I don't think someone who wasn't Jewish would really understand.

I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

Michael Hastings has never served his country the way McChrystal has.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.