P.T. Patrick Quotes

I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.

When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.

The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. "Need a poo, Todd." "Shutup, Manchee." "Poo. Poo, Todd." "I said shut it."

I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.

All things to all people is nothing to everyone.

if one of us falls, we all fall

Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house

I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.

I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.

I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.

You went up a girl and came down a woman.

And it feels like, finally.

This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.

I became slightly disillusioned, but in a really good way that enabled me to realize that the music was the most important thing, and that the rest of it is total bullshit.

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.

I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.

You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.

Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

Small facts lead to great knowing.

That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.

Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.

If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.

Stories don’t always have happy endings.

I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.

Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she's trying to get you to be someone you're not, she's in the wrong

Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance in Mosul. Obviously, there, the Kurds, the Shia, the Iraqi government have their own agendas.

You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.

If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

Repent or be damned! If you have already repented, please disregard this notice.

Caffeine helps a lot. That and a certain amount of isolation.

Poetry is frosted fire.

The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.