Browsing Topic Best Night Light Quotes

Do not go gentle into that good night.

I had great luck with Tim McGraw twice in ‘Friday Night Lights’ and ‘The Kingdom.’ I love finding off-beat casting and finding someone you know in one way and you reinvent them in another way. I like doing that as a director.

When Friday Night Lights finished, I cried for a day. I have a problem.

I am a late discoverer of ‘Friday Night Lights.’ I cry every episode at least once. I love to cry – happy, emotional tears. I just love it.

They were on the set of Bad Santa, but I tried to keep the headphones away from them. My kids have seen Sling Blade, Armageddon, Bandits and Friday Night Lights. They have not seen Monster’s Ball and nor will they ever. Even when they are 60. I will leave it in my will.

I love Dexter. I love Top Chef. I can’t wait for it to come back. I love Friday Night Lights. I think TV is in a great place right now. It’s definitely getting better and better. I think there is some of the most complete writing for women and female characters, they’re done in television production and not really film production.

Being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It’s not about winning. It’s about you and your relationship with yourself, your family and your friends. Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn’t let them down because you told them the truth. And that truth is you did everything you could. There wasn’t one more thing you could’ve done. Can you live in that moment as best you can, with clear eyes, and love in your heart, with joy in your heart? If you can do that gentleman – you’re perfect!

In terms of American Horror Story and Nashville, what attracted me to those, and Friday Night Lights, for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn’t seen before. As an actor, that’s exciting.

I’m being followed by a moon shadowLeaping and hopping on a moon shadow…Did it take long to find me, I asked the faithful light…and are you going to stay the night?

In the past I’d always felt like ‘the girl’ in the show or the movie. On ‘Friday Night Lights’ there were a bunch of girls, and I was the woman. Initially there was a little struggle with my identity around that. But now there’s a sense of ease.

How do people go to sleep? I’m afraid I’ve lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He’s gonna fight and he’s gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.

Right here, right now, God has placed you to do what you do best. Go all the way.

Kindle the taper like the steadfast starAblaze on evening’s forehead o’er the earth,And add each night a lustre till afarAn eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

TV kind of worked out naturally for me. I was fortunate to do a show like ‘Breaking Bad’ and then go straight into something like ‘Friday Night Lights.’ It’s not something I focus on, but when they’re great projects, I can’t pass them up.

When you think of the former high school football star, you think 6-foot-2, white, meathead as the model for that kind of character. Since I’m not 6-foot-2 or white, I just thought about what I could bring to it. I thought about Smash Williams from ‘Friday Night Lights,’ like the cocky quarterback, and played around with that.

You listen to people that love you and you listen to people that you trust. Most of all, you listen to yourself.

Only thing on right now, like a night light.

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends – it gives a lovely light!

I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I’d find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in ‘Friday Night Lights.’ It was surreal.

The frustrating thing about Friday Night Lights is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it.

Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very nearly real. That is why there are night-lights.

In the limelight I play it off fine, but I can’t handle it when I turn off my night-light.

You can do anything you put your mind to, and you can do it in stilettos.

I don’t know where life’s going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that’s blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I’m gone.

I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like ‘Friday Night Lights.’ I used to spend a lot of time at the track.

There is something about nature out of control that touches a primal terror. We are used to believing that we’re the masters of our domain, and that God has given us this earth to rule over. We need this illusion like a good night-light.

The great thing about ‘Friday Night Lights,’ unlike so many other shows and movies, is that it doesn’t take the obvious beats to pull your heartstrings or manipulate you.

I keep a night light on because my room is so full at night, I can’t get to sleep!

True Blood’ is amazing. I have to give a shout out to ‘Melrose Place’ because I do watch. I love ‘Entourage.’ One of my favorite shows back in the day was ‘Friday Night Lights.

Well, it’s a marvelous night for a Moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes…
And I’m trying to please to the calling
Of your heart-strings that they play soft and low
And all the night’s magic seems to whisper and hush
And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush…
One more Moondance with you in the moonlight
On a magic night

When you use force, people get hurt, and when you kill people, their relatives don’t like it. And usually war has some unanticipated consequences so it’s something you shouldn’t launch into, on the expectation that this is going to rally the nation. This is not like ‘Friday Night Lights’.

I’m afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

On Hanukkah, the first dark night,
Light yourself a candle bright.
I’ll you, if you will me invite
To dance within that gentle light.