Oliver Platt quote: "The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle."

2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
OLIVER PLATT

I think of myself as an actor.
OLIVER PLATT

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
OLIVER PLATT

You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means...
OLIVER PLATT

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the scrip...
OLIVER PLATT

You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as...
OLIVER PLATT

You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you&...
OLIVER PLATT

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't ha...
OLIVER PLATT

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
OLIVER PLATT

I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me fee...
CHARLES PLATT

Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer instal...
CHARLES PLATT

From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter.
BEN PLATT

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deepl...
NORBET PLATT

Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to ...
CHARLES PLATT

We can see a thousand miracles around us every day. What is more supernatural than an egg yolk turni...
RUTHERFORD PLATT

Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by play...
CHARLES PLATT

In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big se...
CHARLES PLATT

Our information network is much better protected than our railroad network, and someone who cracks a...
CHARLES PLATT

I had a 'Cats' phase, where I did lots of overturned furniture and trash cans. I asked for a...
BEN PLATT

When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydr...
CHARLES PLATT

The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject....
CHARLES PLATT

I've been stepped on, but that's about it, knock wood. But even that, you can feel it. You know you'...
BRONC PLATT

I got beat up more in wrestling than I do out here on a bull. You'd think it would be the other way ...
BRONC PLATT

He gave me all I could handle. There were some tense moments, but I made it through and jumped on of...
BRONC PLATT

It feels like about an hour when you're actually out there. The bull's doing its thing, you're tryin...
BRONC PLATT

As cyberspace matures into a totally immersive experience, I'm betting it will turn out to be fu...
CHARLES PLATT

If low-temperature fusion does exist and can be perfected, power generation could be decentralized. ...
CHARLES PLATT

Our voices need to be raised in unison against the deterioration of our culture.
RICHARD PLATT

If smart technology can transform 3-D from a crude novelty to a genuine visual enhancement, why shou...
CHARLES PLATT

At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted...
CHARLES PLATT

Even if major funding is obtained for cold fusion, conceivably the phenomenon could suffer from prob...
CHARLES PLATT

I have had a struggle with anxiety, always, and as a proud Jew, that's not a surprising thing.
BEN PLATT

Nothing's too big, nothing's too pretentious in size. It conveys a certain attitude about life - at ...
ALFRED PLATT

I just stood there swaying back and forth thinking I was going to die. It was pretty rough.
BARBARA PLATT

Almost like a bomb went off in the building and it just kept going.
BARBARA PLATT

It was like a hard, huge hit.
BARBARA PLATT

Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is r...
CHARLES PLATT

The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on th...
CHARLES PLATT

God has put on my heart a desire to expand the knowledge of and interest in local Christian music so...
BARBARA PLATT

Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosper...
DAVID PLATT

Giving e-speak away attracts attention to Hewlett Packard, ... People see us as a thought leader in ...
LEWIS PLATT

It is cheaper than going to a bar all night or dinner and a movie.
CHARLES PLATT

There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new...
BEN PLATT

We owe Christ to the world—to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person a...
DAVID PLATT

We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much ...
DAVID PLATT

There was a lot riding on this game in terms of postseason play and a share of the conference champi...
DAVE PLATT

Our team played one of its best halves of the season in the first half. For Wexler, that was one of ...
DAVE PLATT

You're going to see some good soccer coming up. It's going to be difficult but fun to play in.
DAVE PLATT

I learned [Thursday] what I always knew about our team. They can come out and play well against any ...
DAVE PLATT

The status quo is not working. Anything is better than sitting on our hands and complaining and not ...
DAVE PLATT

The price is certainly high for people who don’t know Christ and who live in a world where Christi...
DAVID PLATT

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central messa...
DAVID PLATT

As we increased the riskiness of a target, the neurons' activity would go up in the same way the mon...
MICHAEL PLATT

It is a different animal than home games.
CHARLES PLATT

It is a great skill and it is not gambling. Most people do not have the strength to sit and wait for...
CHARLES PLATT

If we were left to ourselves with the task of taking the gospel to the world, we would immediately b...
DAVID PLATT

But accounts are a nightmare because you are not parting with the cash out of your wallet and theref...
DAVID PLATT

If the 20th century taught us anything, it is to be cautious about the work impossible.
CHARLES PLATT

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats
DAVE PLATT

Hopefully the off-field stuff will help to bring the World Cup home.
DAVID PLATT

We are pleased that Henry has accepted our invitation to join the Board. His experience and expertis...
DAVID PLATT

Anatole has been instrumental in helping to establish our Company and has made significant contribut...
DAVID PLATT

The market is looking for numbers that will add to the information set regarding what the Fed might ...
ELLIOT PLATT

This is a report that suggests that economic growth is slowing very sharply. It's a report that indi...
ELLIOT PLATT

The bond sell-off . . . can be attributed to the stock markets rise, but the market was negatively r...
ELLIOT PLATT

There's something to be said for any boy growing up among lots of other boys who like to play ba...
BEN PLATT

Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to under...
CHARLES PLATT

Teachers have the right to determine what is professional and appropriate attire. And anyone who sup...
DEBORAH PLATT

Everyone thought it was a great idea.
DEBORAH PLATT

One test should not govern how students are judged or how teachers are judged. This will not benefit...
DEBORAH PLATT

I can almost picture the disciples faces. "No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the...
DAVID PLATT

So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring ...
DAVID PLATT

My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for les...
DAVID PLATT

I think Baird's claim is pretty hollow. He has not done a single thing to support the partnership.
EMILY PLATT

I definitely know many people who have worked on Baird's campaign staff in the past who won't be doi...
EMILY PLATT

There were virtually no projects coming off the forest. But we could see that this wasn't a good lon...
EMILY PLATT

I hate gossips. I really do. I often wonder where they get the time and effort they put into either ...
DEW PLATT

The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of pe...
CHARLES PLATT

Should it concern us that the bible never calls us to ask Jesus into our hearts. Should it concern u...
DAVID PLATT

When you shop online, wouldn't you like to sample the bouquet of wines, the aroma of cigars, or ...
CHARLES PLATT

'Pitch Perfect 2' is about the Bellas and what happens to them as they get older. All your f...
BEN PLATT

I was packing to go to Columbia University, and they told me that weekend that I got the 'Pitch ...
BEN PLATT

If you had asked me, in the days of me dreaming about what would happen in the future, who I would w...
BEN PLATT

We've done as best a job as we can making it clear that I'm earning what I'm earning bec...
BEN PLATT

That's not uncommon this time of year. And especially getting into springtime, it's not uncommon to ...
ERIC PLATT

With Wyoming and Colorado so close, I'd love to play for my home state rather than going to CSU.
ERIC PLATT

They said they'd be recruiting me wherever I lived. It's kind of good to know that it's not just bec...
ERIC PLATT

I'm really excited. It's going to be bumming around with coach McClain and with all the players.
ERIC PLATT

The board's first thought was, 'well no, balconies do not fit in downtown Wichita. We're not New Orl...
GEORGE PLATT

But by the same token, I don't think that the arena itself will be enough of a destination so we hav...
GEORGE PLATT

It's been empty a long time and everybody is happy to see it being used again.
GEORGE PLATT

She spent five minutes on the history of the family relationships. Here was a white family that had ...
GEORGE PLATT

between the warts and the pimples, you can't hardly tell whose face it is.
HOWARD PLATT

There's nothing wrong with being poor as long as you vote for the right man.
HOWARD PLATT

Nope, ... They'll have their booth and we'll have ours.
HOWARD PLATT

We're doing it as a representative of Livingstone, but it will be fun doing Catawba, too,
HOWARD PLATT

If he doesn't, we will,
HOWARD PLATT

We wanted to give it a shot. Since North Carolina's not playing until Sept. 10, it leaves some time ...
HOWARD PLATT

We're experimenting with the viability of doing some Livingstone games that don't conflict with our ...
HOWARD PLATT

Catawba wanted somebody to do the games all the time, and they switched,
HOWARD PLATT

The museum is probably so happy to have it over that they'll go along with it. But I think that's sa...
JAN PLATT

It's a blatant political compromise. It's a sad day for arts in our town. I don't think the art muse...
JAN PLATT

Public access had never been an issue until now. Now, I think the commissioners see this as a way to...
JAN PLATT

It has always been my favorite kind of chip. They really satisfy your taste buds if you need somethi...
MARLENE PLATT

Baklava is a great dessert, and everyone has a little different version. Different families and bake...
MARLENE PLATT

They also make great garlic bread. But they're only good for one day. You buy it, eat it and the nex...
MARLENE PLATT

Harry was really the staunchest supporter of the code of conduct,
LEW PLATT

We felt if details were disclosed it would cause embarrassment to the company,
LEW PLATT

We think it's going to thrust us into a position of real leadership that frankly we haven't been in ...
LEWIS PLATT

We've achieved a good profit outcome despite softness in some of our businesses and weak revenue gro...
LEWIS PLATT

The board appreciates that Phil acted with characteristic dignity and selflessness in recognizing th...
LEWIS PLATT

Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting th...
CHARLES PLATT

In the early 1970s, phone phreaks manipulated the long-distance system using blue boxes that they bu...
CHARLES PLATT

The blunt tools of legislation or union power can force a corporation to pay higher wages, but if em...
CHARLES PLATT

A future at Wal-Mart may sound a less-than-stellar prospect, but it's a whole lot better than no...
CHARLES PLATT

The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy.
CHARLES PLATT

Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is on...
CHARLES PLATT

Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.
CHARLES PLATT

Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force with...
CHARLES PLATT

This will be possible because drug dispensing can be linked to individuals' other health information...
RICHARD PLATT

I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better...
OLIVER

I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to...
OLIVER

I think some entertainers have been very irresponsible in their part in making drug use a fad among ...
OLIVER

I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I look at things in a soft way. I try to convey more personal interact...
OLIVER

My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people...
OLIVER

I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. T...
OLIVER

It takes two to tango, but it only takes one to fuck up the dance.
CHRISTINE DANIELLE PLATT

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER

I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one o...
JAMIE OLIVER

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self -...
OLIVER SACKS

The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeli...
JOHN OLIVER

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
JOHN OLIVER

I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that mo...
OLIVER STONE

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
OLIVER STONE

You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it w...
OLIVER STONE

In any film there's always a historical implication.
OLIVER STONE

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
OLIVER STONE

But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt...
OLIVER STONE

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment ...
OLIVER STONE

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced...
OLIVER STONE

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
OLIVER STONE

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one...
OLIVER STONE

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with ...
OLIVER STONE

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she...
OLIVER STONE

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder...
OLIVER STONE

I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find th...
OLIVER STONE

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifyin...
OLIVER STONE

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
OLIVER STONE

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that&...
OLIVER STONE

If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great....
OLIVER STONE

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
OLIVER STONE

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of...
OLIVER STONE

There's an electrical thing about movies.
OLIVER STONE

I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been ...
OLIVER STONE

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progre...
OLIVER STONE

I study history in order to give an interpretation.
OLIVER STONE

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a s...
OLIVER SACKS

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
OLIVER SACKS

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
OLIVER SACKS

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbe...
OLIVER SACKS

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the ...
OLIVER SACKS

I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many so...
OLIVER SACKS

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat th...
OLIVER REED

If the money's right, I'll do a film.
OLIVER REED

You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stre...
OLIVER REED

I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
OLIVER REED

I'm really a pacifist.
OLIVER REED

Awe and respect are two different things.
OLIVER REED

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
OLIVER REED

What's the point of staying sober?
OLIVER REED

Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dr...
OLIVER REED

Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
OLIVER REED

Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. The...
OLIVER REED

But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
OLIVER REED

I like the effect drink has on me.
OLIVER REED

I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn'...
OLIVER REED

I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.
OLIVER REED

I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
OLIVER REED

When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure ever...
OLIVER REED

I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
OLIVER REED

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
OLIVER REED

I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. An...
OLIVER REED

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummat...
OLIVER REED

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman ...
OLIVER REED

I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now ...
OLIVER REED

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fi...
OLIVER NORTH

God knows, we don't want prayer.
OLIVER NORTH

And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.
OLIVER NORTH

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that w...
OLIVER NORTH

Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petrole...
OLIVER NORTH

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Miss...
OLIVER NORTH

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of th...
OLIVER NORTH

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
OLIVER NORTH

If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter ...
OLIVER NORTH

I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of...
OLIVER NORTH

The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. I...
OLIVER NORTH

As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who ser...
OLIVER NORTH

We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And t...
OLIVER NORTH

The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'w...
OLIVER NORTH

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

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The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

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