Top 65 Quotes & Sayings by Tony Goldwyn
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I've inherited a kind of... willfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.
We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.
We all have to stand up and fight alongside American women to make sure that they have the freedom to control their own futures.
#GivingTuesday is the perfect cyber-counterbalance to Black Friday and emphasizes giving back in this era of mass consumption.
My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.
My parents were obsessed with us being normal kids, so I never knew movie stars. They didn't want us to be Hollywood brats.
I love yoga breathing exercises; they're very helpful.
If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level.
I'm a feminist, and I am a man for choice.
I loved working with Ed Zwick.
Every day should be #GivingTuesday when it comes to surviving natural catastrophes and man-made disasters.
We need a president with experience and the wisdom and the grit to stand up to bullies who tell women that they should be punished for making their own decisions.
My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that.
I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Life is a very emotional experience.
I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.
I fought my way into an audition on 'Ghost.'
I've played a lot of villains, and I always feel slightly upset when people say, 'You were so bad!'
The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen.
I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.
I don't do anything artificial. I don't do Botox or surgery.
I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.
Our age-old faith in divine male intuition is no longer good enough. Reality check, fellas: We are not gods. We are men. Let's own it.
Nothing's wrong with honest emotion.
I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.
I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.
A 'guys' night out' for me is... being with my wife! Since I'm at work a lot, I want to be with her when I'm home.
When my stepmother had my sister, Katharine Hepburn dropped by to say hello. She came with George Cukor, who wasn't a star, but he was a famous director. He was also my grandmother's best friend, so I knew him well as a kid. But when George showed up with Katharine Hepburn, I was utterly star struck.
In order to be creatively satisfied and financially secure, you need to be a self-starter. I'm always assuming nothing's going to work out and I have to roll up my sleeves.
Honestly, people are pretty chill and respectful on Twitter.
It takes courage to acknowledge uncertainty. And nothing is more attractive than demonstrating to another person that he or she is of value to you.
Empathy goes a long way, for sure. We cannot have healthy, loving, mutually respectful relationships without it. But we're not psychic. At least I'm not. And intuition can only take you so far, especially when a person's sense of safety, comfort, and self-worth hangs in the balance.
Reproductive rights are not just a women's issue.
We're raised to believe that asking for help - that not having all the answers - is a sign of weakness, somehow challenging our manhood.
The truth is that every single relationship is very complex and full of contradictions; as you get into a more mature relationship, you realize that the contrasts are part of the fabric of every substantive relationship.
I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?
It was an incredible series, 'From The Earth To The Moon.' All of it's great.
I've played several real characters, and I've always found it very difficult because you don't want to do an impersonation.
I have to say one of the most gratifying things about being in this industry for a long time is you do develop a genuine sense of community with the people you know and collaborate with.
I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I got to know Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck very well - he's a character in the movie - and I got very passionate about the cause. It's just so inherently dramatic.
In television, the creator is really the voice...
If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level
My two daughters live on Facebook and social media is their mode of communication.
Relationships are super complicated and always have dark and light in them. And all good sexual relationships do, too.
I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.
I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important
I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.
My sex scenes with @kerrywashington are f****** hot!
My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.
I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...
My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that
One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.
You can say the president's private life takes up so much of his time that he doesn't focus on his job, so therefore he's terrible. But in my imagination, the 23 hours of the day that we don't experience, he's very hard at work. He's quite an effective and successful president - in my narcissistic imagination.
The network was fantastic, but you get a lot of anxiety with any production. It was very helpful to have both of us because we could back each other up. As a creator, a director and a filmmaker, you often get assaulted and you lose perspective because you have all of this pressure. It was so nice to call him and say, "What do you think?"
The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen
Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.
If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.
I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit
Once you go Kerry Washington, you can’t go back
Nothings wrong with honest emotion.
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