Following Directions Quotes

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.

The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was taking my picture, so when he told me to get in the bathtub, I just did. It's only now, looking back, that I realise, you don't have to do everything people tell you.

Sometimes when your coach draws something up, you just kind of go with it.

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.

I used Atlantic like I was supposed to.

I think that when I'm an actor, I get hired, and you say jump three inches, I'll jump three inches. I just kind of trust what the writer's vision is.

What a director is looking for is someone who will follow you and no matter what. And if you ask for blue, he's gonna try blue. And if you say, give me a piece of red with it, and they try. And you don't mind so much if it's difficult to get the blue and the red together. As long as they try. And as long as they give everything they can to give you what you want. That's what I'm looking for.

People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.

I'm trying to get an acting gig on 'CSI' or something like that, so we'll see how that works out. I'm a singer, definitely not an actor, so I just follow directions.

I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.

When I'm acting, I do what I'm supposed to do.

When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.

The game will tell you what to do on the floor, and that's what I try to do.

My memorization skills aren't that great so I need help in that area. As far as everything else, I listen to the director. I'm someone who doesn't argue. I hit my marks and say the lines.

I've said, I never thought I rebelled. I never - I don't think I've ever had that period. You know, I just had to do what I had to do. You know, I was a good kid.

As an actor, you blindly put your trust in experts - and if they tell you something's safe, you don't fully vet it yourself. If you're young and inexperienced, that's just what you're taught to do.

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for. And in life, not necessarily following directions helps you get certain places - because you go to the right school you can learn the right things, and you go to the wrong school you can learn the wrong things, so it just all depends. But school doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.

I was buttoned up as a kid. I did what I was told and never broke the rules.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

I think you have to be true to the script that you're given.

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.

At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.

I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.