Quotes About Selection

Growing up I loved this brand, and if someone would have told seven year old me that I would be selecting color combos with the originator of Gecko I would have cried.

I have the same criteria for choosing roles as I have always had: fantastic writing and complicated characters.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Whenever you're adapting something that's a 12- or 14-hour read down to something that has to be around two hours, there's going to be some cuts.

I remember seeing the song in some diners on the selection gadget that plays records at the table while you were eating. We were never told if the songs ever got on any charts.

We need choices of government, just like we have choices of tables or chairs or cell phones or coffee.

The manager wants to show his tactics, and if I do them perfectly, he'll pick me.

The friendlies are an opportunity to look at different players and tactics.

You're not making a decision if you come to a fork in the road. There is no 'it' to take. It's one or the other.

Managers are under pressure and maybe don't want to take a chance on a young player.

Coaching jobs are far and few between; you try and get into the right situation and take advantage of it from there.

It's an honor to be selected to the All-Star Game. It's not something I take for granted.

Earlier, I used to take up any role that came my way. But now I feel that I should take time and consider the role before taking it up.

I am not concentrating on any industry but just taking up good offers, which gives me scope to perform.

Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie.

The talent is in the choices.

Your talent is in your choice.

I had talked to a lot of people in Golden State's front offices before the draft. They said they liked me, but they had a lot of guards, so I didn't think that I would end up there.

If I have several bad guys and I only want to end up with one of them, then I have to decide which one I want in the end. And normally it's the one who is the most interesting talker.

I wear a size 16 shoe, which isn't too bad. I can't usually go into a store and buy them, but there are catalogs throughout the country for big and tall people that I can order from.

Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: 'Tell me! Tell me!' The stories choose me.

Everyone in the world is a Charlie. The trick is to figure out which Charlie you're going to be. Charlie Manson. Charlie Starkweather. Or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." "Charlie Chaplin." "Charlie Parker." "Charly… from Flowers for Algernon." "Charlie Brown.