Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Timothy Hutton Quote: 'When I was doing 'Ordinary People' ...'

Related Quotes

A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man.
Emilio Estevez
Tags: People Just More
dolomites mountains italy alpine
Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.


Gerard Way
Tags: People Who Make
clouds sky nature weather forward
My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.


Kenneth Branagh
flower colorful garden bloom
Just like other ordinary people, I want to have a happy family.


Lee Byung-hun
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
Geraldine Brooks
They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery.
David R. Brower
Tags: People About Know
In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.
Tommy Lee Jones
dunes beach sea nature clouds
Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.


Billy Idol
Tags: People Way Art
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
Walter Lord
I would never tell anyone who to vote for. I'm a different kind of 'liberal' and I think people should be true to themselves. If you're Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, you should be true to yourself and be who you are.
Jon Lovitz
Tags: You People Think
I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.
Leonard Baskin
Tags: Work You People
It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
Mike Huckabee
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
Henry Williamson
Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.
Ted Naifeh
Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds.
Lionel Richie
Tags: Time You People
Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all infidels working for America, and in fact, it was millions of ordinary people who peacefully, more or less - certainly in the case of Tunisia and Egypt - got rid of them.
Robert Fisk
Tags: People Who More
What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
Pete Townshend
Tags: People Than Much
It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music.
Neil Peart
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.
Russell Banks
Tags: Age People Me
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
Tony Blair