22 Quotes by Scott Patterson

Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.

I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.

People retired all the time, but because Hurley and Knott were with the district for so many years, they are such an institution, so the thought was we should give them a proper send-off.

This is not good. The decline in enrollment is something we have to grapple with.

If you only look at salaries, we don't look very good. But if you look at total compensation, we look pretty good.

I never worked in a coffee shop and I don't drink coffee, so I never thought I would become a coffee pusher on TV.

In 10 different takes, you can do a scene 10 different ways.

However, if it gets to a situation where people are refusing not to abide by it, we do have the authority to not allow them to ride the bus. So that is one stick the agency has that it can use.

The Algo Wars were leaving a path of destruction in their wake. “HFT algos reduce the value of resting orders and increase the value of how fast orders can be placed and cancelled,” wrote Nanex researcher Eric Hunsader. “This results in the illusion of liquidity. We can’t understand why this is allowed to continue, because at the core, it is pure manipulation.