G.G. Collins Quotes

I started running in high school. I found out if you run fast then you can get girls.

I ask God every day to give me the words to tell the kids. That's my mentality, and that's what I'm intending to do.

When you have been to the lowest part of your life, you have no choice but to sit back and just think about things. You just pay attention to so much more.

I'm extremely humbled, I'm happy and I'm blessed, because at the end of the day, I'm doing what I love to do.

I'm in a great situation because I know what kind of player I want to be, I know where I'm going to be, and I know what I have to do to get there and I'm around the right guys.

I have always been a leader on my team. I have always been a guy that held player-only meetings. I'm the type of guy that stood up and said something. I know how to lead.

I like to think of myself as a very passionate person, and as very determined.

I like to be comfortable but I also like to look put together all the time.

I loved the idea [of improvisation], but I'd never taken any classes or practiced it.

The idea of improvisation kind of freaked me out.

When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.

At a party recently I was introduced to Meryl Streep, and it took me a second to get my head around it. You know, that I'm meeting these people now. I'm doing it.

In the '30s, every day was an event. And, as much as I love that idea, I think nowadays it's nice to have the differentiation of when you dress up and when you don't.

I don't wear dresses all the time - it's nice to save those moments for certain occasions and to make it feel extra special.

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

Starting at 16 years old I was in boardrooms of older executives pitching talk shows. I wanted to be the youngest talk show host for a really long time.

I watched a few of Warren Beatty films when I was growing up...my Dad loved 'Heaven Can Wait.'

I wanted to watch the women interacting with [Warren Beatty], which takes he chose, and how the actresses were reacting in scenes with him.

My mom brought me up on old Hollywood. I had been living in Los Angeles. Respecting old movies and growing up with people that were icons that I got to speak to.

I love to test boundaries.

If you don't have that trust in the backbone of the project, you may not know what you're making.

The greenhouse scene! It was just so fun to have the romance and the action.

I love hats, I'm such a fan of hats. You don't wear a fascinator everywhere you go, but there are ways to incorporate old Hollywood nuances into your looks today but also edge it up.

I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.

I sing some songs but don't expect me to release an album anytime soon.

I’m a big fan of the whip... That snake whip was awesome!

I would say [I love] writing, because lately I've been finishing my book.

Snow White has always been one of my favorite fairy tales growing up. To be able to say, "I'm going to be Snow White" - it's crazy. It's an honor.

I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I think it's just taking you out of everyday life, and everyone loves a good fairy tale.

I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint.

My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined.

I feel like part of your job as an actor is you're going to get noticed, and the more successful you get, the more noticed you are. It's kind of like a Catch-22.

I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.

They're really competitive at drama in Texas.

The way that I work is very specific, very thorough, and the process has to be totally clear.

In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.

I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.

I will say that Lynda Carter is an awesome woman.

Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process.

I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.

I think Andrew Stanton is such an amazing, creative mind.

The truth for me is that I've been doing independent film since the get-go, so that's a big passion of mine, but the big ones are really fun, too. I like my world to be eclectic.

I think what we've done is given children a lot of things that they didn't ask for instead of what they do want.

If you're turned away from one road, there's always another--filled with risk but also adventure. Roads less taken are always the most rewarding ones.

Rick: Can you swim? Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it. Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls for it.

If it doesn't make you sweat, it's not worth it. If it's not hard to get, why go for it?

Certainly, I, as an audience, am stricken with terror if I see only two people onstage. And one person, I think, is even harder for people to take.

I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

I have played a few lay saints in my time.