Nicholas Ray (Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr) Quotes
In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.Nicholas Ray
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
Pat Robertson -
You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
Adam Oates -
I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
Queen Latifah -
I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.
Hannah Simone -
My problem is I can't show any of my movies to my daughters. It's tough. 'Beauty and the Beast'... they liked it. But that's the only one, really. Otherwise, they've always been dark or violent.
Vincent Cassel -
I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
Dan Byrd
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I was born a singer. I need to do that.
Nana Mouskouri -
What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.
Haley Joel Osment -
The number one priority in life is to take care of yourself and make sure you're happy.
Sabrina Carpenter -
To James's intimates, however, these elaborate hesitancies, far from being an obstacle, were like a cobweb bridge flung from his mind to theirs, an invisible passage over which one knew that silver-footed ironies, veiled jokes, tiptoe malices, were stealing to explode a huge laugh at one's feet.
Edith Wharton -
The self really is an illusion-and realizing this is the basis of spiritual life.
Sam Harris -
What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.
Clementa C. Pinckney
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We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.
Mary Astell -
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
Marshall McLuhan -
If you get honest feedback and do nothing about it, then the feedback will stop.
Alan Mulally -
Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.
James Bay -
There are some projects where you have to just start doing it, and, after a while, the show starts telling you what it wants to be. You put your spirit in and, after a while, something bigger takes over, and it turns out to be much more fun and creative than what it was at the beginning.
Brian Stokes Mitchell -
Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.
Jessica Chastain
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I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments.
Ellsworth Kelly -
It's a strange thing now how people will know they're dying themselves when no one else could suspect anything wrong at all with them.
Katharine Tynan -
The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.
Kit Williams -
I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you're playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major chords that are all over the place, and you're enjoying yourself with a great, simple melody.
Jake Gyllenhaal -
I think auditions are set up for failure because they're not really the set experience. There's no time to develop the character. You're just looking at someone... if someone's really good in an audition, sometimes they're not good in the film. It's something you learn when you're doing short films. It's the same way that some people do well at taking tests and some people don't. But when you're on a long-term filmmaking process it's a completely different feeling.
Cary Fukunaga -
In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.
Nicholas Ray