That Guy Quotes - Page 2

• My favorite actor that I look up to is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. His career is something I look up to, I just want to be that guy. He's always part of projects that have a lot of soul and that's what I want to do as an actor.

  Grant Gustin

  Careers, Guy, Soul

  Interview with Rae Votta, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 31, 2011.

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• The O. Henry has become lingua franca among writers for saying, 'That guy can write a story.' It's prestigious, respected, coveted, dreamed about. It's very satisfying to be included in this group of writers. Here's a koan: Could O. Henry win an O. Henry?

  Tony D'Souza

  Writing, Winning, Guy

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• Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Growing Up, Play, Interesting

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with 'Three's Company' and Miss Abigail's Guide Star Joyce DeWitt". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. June 17, 2011.

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• There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio - I don't know that guy.

  Bill Burr

  Funny, Brother, Ohio

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• I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

  Richard Avedon

  Guy, Feelings, Looks

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• I enjoyed playing around with Paulie in the Rocky films, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.

  Burt Young

  Fun, Years, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

  Chris Farley

  Average, People, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.

  Michael Shannon

  Believe, Play, People

  Interview with Paul Rudd, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 17, 2013.

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• My favorite part is that 1-on-1 matchup... Block out everything else and stare into that guys eyes.

  Dwight Freeney

  Block, Eye, Guy

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• The idea that guys should walk into a bar and confidently initiate contact and then seduce a woman based on a short term conversation is a toxic cultural myth that robs guys of self-confidence and that holds them up to an unrealistic standard that they have to become a super-extraverted narcissist in order to 'score with women'

  Tucker Max

  Self Confidence, Order, Ideas

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• One story I've been trying to write for years, and haven't been able to finish, is about a face I saw, just a glimpse of a face, in a max security prison in North Carolina. I'm still trying to understand what I saw in that guy's face.

  Peter Orner

  Writing, Years, Guy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes the messages I put out are somewhat of that [street] nature, but the thing is, that's not the person, it's just like an actor or something. It's just like when Wesley Snipes is not [the character he played in] 'New Jack City,' but a lot of people get it twisted. They think, 'That's that guy. That's that dude. That's how he roll.' But man, that's definitely not how I roll. I believe in God. I'm a Christian... People always trying to stereotype people because of their job.

  Project Pat

  Christian, Jobs, Believe

  "Project Pat Out Of Prison, 'Taking It One Day At A Time'" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. August 3, 2005.

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• At the end of the playback of the take of "Like A Rolling Stone", or actually during the thing, Bob Dylan said to the producer, turn up the organ. And Tom Wilson said, oh man, that guy's not an organ player. And Dylan said, I don't care, turn the organ up, and that's really how I became an organ player.

  Al Kooper

  Player, Men, Guy

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• Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.

  Jason Biggs

  Crazy, Pie, Guy

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• Skiing is my favorite sport, because, that's the only sport that is actually better to watch the worst the person is at it. "That guy won a gold medal in the Olympics" "Oh yeah, that's cool, i wanna watch the fat guy" "Come on dude, you can take that hill"

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Sports, Humor

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• We need a serious leader to deal with this. And I believe I'm that guy.

  Jeb Bush

  Believe, Guy, Leader

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.

  Bill Klem

  Hands, Voice, Guy

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• You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Movie, Thinking, People

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• On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow the last bite of cookie. Those of you who have thought to yourselves, 'That guy talks like he has marbles in his mouth,' should know that they are not marbles, but oatmeal cookies.

  Lester Holt

  Cutting, Oatmeal, Guy

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• I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.' It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.

  Channing Tatum

  Drama, Should Have, Play

  Interview with Marlon Wayans, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 16, 2009.

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• I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy.

  Andrew Dominik

  Brother, People, Guy

  "Cannes: Andrew Dominik On The Violence, Politics & Look Of ‘Killing Them Softly’ With Brad Pitt". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.indiewire.com. May 24, 2012.

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• It's a cocktail-party circuit in D.C., That guy who couldn't master the guitar and get in a band and get laid, he ends up there. Gary Condit make sense to me. He's away from his family, he's in D.C. - if he was a car dealer in the [San Fernando] Valley somewhere out there, he'd be the guy who was trying to get laid by offering you the free undercoating package.

  Dennis Miller

  Party, Offering, Guitar

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• I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more.

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Guy, Brain

  Tyson's love for the fight game turns to disgust" by Dan Rafael, www.espn.com. June 11, 2005.

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• But Shane-O, Shane-O, you've got it all wrong, son. You see, when I pass, I'm not gonna leave my money to you! When I pass, I'm gonna leave all of my money to my beautiful daughter Stephanie... and, and whoever that guy is that knocked her up.

  Triple H

  Beautiful, Daughter, Son

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• Getting dragged, kicking and screaming out of the ring, begging for mercy from whomever it is that fires me, and never be seen again. That's how I wanna go out. Haha, yeah, I don't want any.. hero's goodbye, or a big send off. I don't want a retirement ceremony. That's not how I'm built, I just wanna disappear into the sunset and have people, 'Man, that guy was a jerk. Wow, I'm glad he's gone.'

  Chris Jericho

  Goodbye, Retirement, Hero

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