Quotes About Background

My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.

My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.

In real life I do a lot of reconnaissance and then kind of choose the guy I'm going to go after. Not like stalking, but I just want a little background info. That might be why I haven't had many bad dates.

Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much easier; but when you're standing there completely dry in front of the camera with no musical background, just a fine-tuned, get-this-emotional-story across, it's a very, very intense kind of focus.

I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically, there is a desire to get at that person. But I think the stands I have taken are totally consistent with a person who is looking at things realistically, factually.

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

In a noisy place I can't understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

My parents were not at all involved in science. In fact, neither of them went to college.

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

I contemplated a career at NIH at one point. I have a neuroscience background.

You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.

You can just never forget where you came from.

You never forget where you come from.

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.

Neither one of my parents played sports at a very high level when they grew up in Nicaragua.

I had no acting background in my family and no experience of theatre. I hadn't even been in a school play.

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

There's no point apologizing about where you come from.

Choice is always performed against a background of habit.

I supposed the Red Guards had enjoyed themselves. Is it not true that we all possess some destructive tendencies in our nature? The veneer of civilization is very thin. Underneath lurks the animal in each of us. If I were young and had had a working class background, if I had been brought up to worship Mao and taught to believe him infalliable, would I not have behaved exactly as the Red Guards had done?

The walls were a deep, rich rose, a strong background for the paintings. She favored antiques, or reproductions that looked enough like the real thing to pass. Soft fabrics and sleek sculpture.