Ve Neill Quotes

I think a lot of the inspirations for me are very instinctual and subconscious. I don't over intellectualize stuff much. It's a very instinctual thing.

I've learned more, and I understand the process a bit better now. I can try to see how long I want to take in each aspect of the filmmaking process, and then arrive at around the two-year end mark.

Why do [TEMPLES] beautify and shine? Because as the scriptures say, 'truth shineth,' and temples contain truth and eternal purpose; so do you.

By the nourishing spirit of the temple we can learn the reality, the power and the hope of the Savior's Atonement in our personal life.

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.

I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

You don't necessarily have to go a long way in New Zealand to be in some pretty dense and scary bush.

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

Actors are easy to like. They are generally sociable, thoughtful people.

I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.

I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

If you want to learn about America, watch The Wire. Its a profound piece of entertainment.

You never really know who you're going to be acting with, but that doesn't really matter. 99% of the actors I've worked with, and they number in the thousands, I've liked.

Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.

In the case of Wilderpeople, I walked on the first day with some apprehension actually; because it doesn't come anywhere close to anything I've really played before, this part.

A mission which becomes a commercial concern may end by ceasing to be a mission

I am the Democratic Whip of the White House.

You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

If you are doing things in order to be happy...you're doing them in the wrong order.

Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got—nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it.

Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . .

I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.

The last time I was this confused I was watching a Fassbinder film.

They do say money is the root of all evil."I thought that was supposed to be the love of money."There's neat for you. 'Tis them without it that loves it best.

Family. Couldn't live with them, couldn't run a stake through them.

The smallest a family can be is two members, and that was Jules and me.

Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time.

My black-headed black-eyed boy. I remember every day of you. How would I forget?

Have you noticed how Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen look nothing alike, and yet they both manage to look exactly like their father, Martin?

Try your ideas. You might surprise yourself.

You string some letters together, and you make a word. You string some words together, and you make a sentence, then a paragraph, then a chapter. Words have power.

...even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery.

No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.

Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed.

Why, isabel? Why are you doing this to yourself? To your

That was desire messing with physics: putting its finger on the record and then slowing it down, making sure you heard every word spoken, and memorized it.

People do not ever change. The person you see later is merely the one that was hidden from you in the beginning. Shane KP O'Neill - The Gates Of Babylon.

Profanity is the expression of a lesser mind.

He breathed in hard. The stench of blood filled his lungs. Only now, for the first time, could he truly appreciate it.

Bodies lay strewn all around. Turkish and Wallachian warriors caught in the intimate indiscriminate embrace of death.

The beauty of a woman is that no two are the same. They are all different. It follows then that to be successful as a lover, you cannot make love to any two in the same way.

Bodies lay strewn all around. Turkish and Wallachian warriors caught up in the intimate indiscriminate embrace of death.

To move forward, you must first take a step

To move forward, one must take the first step

Moving forward requires that one first take a step.