D.X. Logan Quotes

A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted.

Behold congenial Autumn comes, the Sabbath of the Year.

Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong.

I thought not only am I going to die, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever.

Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

A lot of times, when I'm approaching pre-production and my job, and trying to research and work on the script and whatnot it's always different.

What you choose to do professionally is a reflection of yourself and I take that seriously as an actor. But even as a filmmaker, I take it even more seriously.

You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.

I started studying filmmakers, and I would say early on the ones that really inspired me the most were like the field magicians of music videos.

I would love to shoot on film, but you can't really shoot a lot of footage on film, and you can't print a lot of it.

You would assume that a filmmaker should know how to edit, but pretty much every filmmaker I've worked with doesn't know how to edit.

Film is a collection of many mediums and collaboration and you're only as strong as the people you're working with - and everybody owns their mediums.

My ideal role would be the lead in a film with a director that I really appreciate and admire.

When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!

As you get older, there are different types of roles in people's lives at certain ages.

I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.

I just love being in the U.K.

I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though.

I'm just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.

I just don't want to repeat the same thing over and over again, so I'm always looking for something that's going to be challenging and make me nervous every time I start a project.

The idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the guys I really idolize is a dream for me.

Growing up, I was taught a mans word is his bond.

I always was flattered when people would say I would do whatever it took for the team. I always thought of myself as that kind of guy.

My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

I just think the more were observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

If it's to be, it's up to me.

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

Married women are kept women, and theyare beginning to find it out.

The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.

To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. It must be somewhere up there on the horizon, we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

When someone offers you lines like that, he must be Mephistopheles and you must be Faust. You know you shouldn't succumb to such language, but you succumb.

I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while.

Now whenever I left class to go to the boys' room, I worried that I would end up on the blue tiled floor in a puddle of piss and blood.