Christopher Hampton Quotes
I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
Quotes to Explore
-
The world needs some help.
-
Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
-
I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
-
It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
-
I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
-
Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
-
Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
-
I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
-
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
-
One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
-
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
-
As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
-
Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
-
I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
-
I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
-
I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
-
I don't have many friends.
-
She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
-
One had sown the seeds of corruption, and the other watered and nurtured it. Both the TDP and Congress have played their bit in patronising Satyam.
-
I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
-
The answer to the American health crisis is the food that each of us chooses to put in our mouths each day. It's as simple as that.
-
I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.
-
I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
