Skip to content

Able Quote by Alan Ball

“I certainly feel fortunate in my career to have been able to continue to work in different mediums. I don't ever want to be the guy who gets really good at one thing and just does that over and over and over again.” quote by Alan Ball — Download Open image

“I certainly feel fortunate in my career to have been able to continue to work in different mediums. I don't ever want to be the guy who gets really good at one thing and just does that over and over and over again.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings)

More by Alan Ball

The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.

Image

“Well did you call the hypothetical hardware store and buy a theoretical chainsaw?-- Pam to Jessica, True Blood”

Image

“Pam: I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I want to hear their problems. Maybe I smile too much.…

Image

Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD…

Image

I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But I do…

Image

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on…

Image

“I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second…

Image

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Image

Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You…

Image

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

Image

'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all the time.…

Image

I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a…

Image

Explore all 91 Alan Ball quotes

More Able quotes

I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,…

Jacques Lusseyran

Image

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

Frederick Douglass

Image

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,…

Image

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any…

Image

I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still…

Image

I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it…

Anthony Jeselnik

Image

Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be…

Image

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

Image

Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which…

Image

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music…

Image

What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this…

Image

The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and…

Image

Browse all 17,006 Able quotes