Christopher McQuarrie Quotes

The way I like to describe Hollywood today is this: everyone wants to make 'Deliverance,' but no one wants to be Ned Beatty.

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• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Remember
  • Man

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I've had an extraordinary life as a dancer. You tour the world, you see all the great capitals of the world, the beautiful old opera houses all over Europe - you go everywhere. As a teenager, I would always say, 'I can't believe this is happening to little me,' because it was always a dream to dance.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• Be who you are and be that well.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • You
  • Well
  • Who

• A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Friend

• San Francisco, coolest place ever.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Place
  • Ever
  • San Francisco

• I want to avoid injuries by running only road.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Want
  • Running
  • Road

• Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Made
  • Athletes
  • Champions

• There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Service

• If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • People
  • Say
  • Other

• Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Politics
  • Places
  • Brooklyn

• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Wanted
  • Accident
  • Blueprint

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Power

• One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Energy
  • Ugly
  • Economic

• I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Know
  • Person
  • Saying

• I'm quite a tuxedo junkie, I collect them all year round.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Year
  • Round
  • Tuxedo

• Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Education

• Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Friends

• I'd really like to give back to the world, but everything I've achieved, I've earned on my own, so what's the point?

  

  Zach Braff
  • World
  • Giving
  • Giving Back

• I have a family I love. They tend to say, 'Great job!' Or 'You work really hard! Good for you!' Or 'You look nice today!' Or 'Don't be ridiculous, order the fries!' Or 'You are hilarious.' That's all the family I need.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• The way I like to describe Hollywood today is this: everyone wants to make 'Deliverance,' but no one wants to be Ned Beatty.

  

  Christopher McQuarrie
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