Danny Bonaduce Quotes

I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.

All I do is get up in the morning and go where I'm told to go.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.

Shake the hand that feeds you.

The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

When you're an actor on set, people treat you like a giant baby. They don't let you do anything. Like, "Do you need any food? Do you need the bathroom?"

Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.

Schools teach the need to be taught.

Working in television is very hard. I think people know that.

There's a lot of great stuff on television and that's very appealing to actors who want to work, who do good quality and high quality work. But you're always concerned that the time demands on television will interrupt or interfere with your film work.

I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal.

Success, instead of giving freedom ofchoice, becomes a way of life.

Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.

The more you rely on what you need, the more you become that which you rely on.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

I love the consistency of working on television. You don't get that in working on film. But, it's all about the right projects. I'm reading different stuff, every single day. I'm actively seeking.

When I look at my career, the bulk of it has been television, and I love working in television. But there's a speed at which you do it. You're doing seven to ten pages a day on a series, and it's hard to feel like you're doing the detail-oriented work that I like to do.

Most women are starving to receive something from a man that they need to give to themselves.