Overlooked Quotes

"It`s better to be looked over, than overlooked."

"I do not hold that because the author did a bad job of writing the player need trump it with the same kind of acting. When I go into a picture I have only one character to look after. If the author didn`t do him justice, I try to add whatever the creator of the part overlooked."

I`m the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

I think when you`re young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say . . . well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar. When Taxi Driver (1976) was up for Best Picture, it got three other nominations: Best Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Supporting Actress (Jodie Foster) and Best Music. But the director and writer were overlooked. I was so disappointed, I said, `You know what?That`s the way it`s going to be.` What was I going to do, go home and cry?

I do firmly believe that I`ve been overlooked, especially in "Terminator." Jim Cameron was saying to me at the time, "I don`t know Michael why you are not being offered more movies now. All of us expected it, you know?" But now, five or six years later, when everyone has seen the movie five or six times on video people are beginning to realize how good it was and what a good performance it was. But I have to say I don`t feel shortchanged and I don`t resent anything. I think it`s best in the long run. Look at the Brat Pack: Those guys got so much so fast that they were never allowed to really struggle and know what good chances they had in much of the work they were doing. So, even though I felt that some of my work was overlooked at times I know that it has made me stronger and better and it has made me work harder to get other jobs and be good in them. (from a 1989 interview)

Regarding his commitment to directing Jarhead (2005) without a personal soldiering background: "This is new territory to me, but I hadn`t spent two days in American suburbia when I directed American Beauty (1999). I only knew the script had an unusual and original voice and it was a challenge I wanted to take on. Jarhead (2005) is equal parts black humor, honesty, rage, lyricism, profanity and the mixture of machismo jarhead culture. With the exception of Three Kings (1999) this is a war that has been overlooked but which has a burning relevance to what is happening right now in the Middle East."

But nobody really recruited me: TCU, Baylor, North Texas, UTEP ... teams like that. I went on a visit to Kansas State but they didn`t offer me. A&M was waiting on another running back and didn`t offer me. I was overlooked.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I`d always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

(on Elvis Presley`s inner-circle crew) Well, they were yes men. They overlooked his excesses and the chemicals he was taking. For a Cadillac, they would say the right thing. I said, "God forbid that day comes that you die, Elvis. Red West is gonna write a bad book about you," and I was absolutely right.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.

I`m in a family of six. And I`m also engaged, and my grandparents want to come. The biggest group being overlooked is students who are underclassmen and friends (with the seniors).

Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn`t much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you`re dealing with - what`s been overlooked, what the issues are.

People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That`s easily overlooked.

People don`t realize how deep this team is. They probably walked in and saw J.O., Ron and J.T. out, and they probably overlooked us. I don`t think people should do that.

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there`s no law against wacking them around a little.

The rest of the world has long overlooked the potential of the Arab world. George Clooney was in Dubai last year and people are starting to look into this region. Making this film here is a very good statement for this area,

They were overlooked in the budget last semester, and it would not be fair to shoot them down due to a technical error.

Monica Dorley always comes to my mind because she was only about 5-foot-1 and she was absolutely the type of person that would be overlooked by a lot of college coaches,

It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.

This big, vast area in the middle is overlooked. People tend to focus on the large and the small.

(Many executives, particularly those of Pottruck`s age and tax bracket, would simply have retired, using that competitive fire to improve their handicaps. But for Pottruck, the best coping strategy was simply to charge ahead, to believe that what came next was just as important as what had come before. By September, he had settled into luxurious new offices (paid for by Schwab as part of his severance agreement) that overlooked San Francisco`s Embarcadero, just 10 blocks from Schwab`s offices.) There is going to be mourning, ... but successful people let go of the past as quickly as they can. You can`t mourn at the same time you have a new beginning because it drags the new beginning down.

I think our defence probably is a little overlooked, but pitching and defence are going to win you a lot of ballgames.

The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there`s no law against whacking them around a bit.