S.L. Ross Quotes

I love seeing Houston. Houston has a great style and energy.

He was not going to be dragged into other people´s business. He was going to plunge in headfirst.

One of an actor's fears is that your current project could be your last project.

My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for The Social Network.

I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.

I went from the glamour of working with Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano to living on an isolated hilltop, with my husband gone most of the time.

Everyone lives under their rocks in L.A., so it takes a long time to find your lane.

I love going out dancing. There is nothing better than letting your hair down and staying up far too late, is there?

I love when girls wear print-on-print. It looks so cool.

I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.

Lots of girls will work for five years before Mario Testino will use them, and I was not prepared to slog around doing that.

There are always going to be reasons to do the wrong thing. And the smarter the person, the better the reasons. That doesn't make it right.

I think in Mrs. C, I certainly played myself. A very compulsive, sweet person.

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

When you listen to someone's songs, their soul comes through.

I played guitar when I was a kid, a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.

The challenge and love, for me, of acting is if you get to transform or do something you haven't done before. That's fun.

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't really know what they were like before they were famous.

When people talk about careers, I always feel like the connotation of a career is that you're actually choosing things.

One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor, in the first place.

I mentioned before, these [classic Disney films] are classic mythological tales, a hero's journey, and have been told for thousands of years. Disney has updated them, and made them accessible for us.

There is much institutionalized racism in The Netherlands and the non-White population is just now beginning to fight for their rights.

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

That is what I was more drawn to - creating stories while changing and altering reality.

I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a single mom who just planted me in front of the television.

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.

Uganda can greatly benefit from American evangelicals if they separate the Scott Lively extremists from the Rick Warren-type of moderate evangelicals.

I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament.

The musicians are good and their music is catchy - it pulls the kids in in droves. Mike Bickle admitted to me that the music was a big part of their success at attracting young people.

When you are in the prayer room you forget about the outside world and fall into a Christian rock coma, and nothing else seems to matter.

Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up with the sense that they are inferior to white kids.

It's a horrible feeling to be mocked and ridiculed because of your race.

Racism was never acceptable to the people who suffer from it.

I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how the story is being reported.

[Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't be shown again.

Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award.

The product Disney created actually changed a life, and that was significant to them. They didn't stand in my way at all.

Racism is a global problem and it is as damaging to Whites as it is to non-Whites. Everyone must fight against it.

Bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world.

The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.

A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself.

I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.