Christopher Nolan Quotes

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

Christopher Nolan

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• I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Important
  • You
  • Questions

• I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Obsessed
  • Talented
  • Sara Bareilles

• Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill - on vote after vote, Bill Nelson has chosen to side with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama over the people of Florida.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • People
  • Food
  • Wall

• A true man hates no one.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • True
  • Man
  • True Man

• I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Love
  • Feel
  • Seeing

• If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• 'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Successful

• I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • World
  • Play
  • Language

• We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Identity
  • Own
  • Depend

• I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Behavior
  • Experiment

• Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Life
  • Work
  • Business

• When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Connection

• I'm a homing pigeon. When I'm in Tallahassee, I give everything I have to being, hopefully, the best legislator I can be. When I'm home, I'm home. I try to not do legislative stuff. That brings a balance to life.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Life
  • Home
  • Best

• Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Believe
  • Fear
  • Faith

• Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • City
  • Forever
  • Wall

• The determination to win is the better part of winning.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Winning
  • Win
  • Determination

• Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Drunk

• New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • World
  • Lost
  • New York

• It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

  

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas
  • Men
  • Women

• I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

  

  Cynthia Voigt
  • Book
  • Poetry

• I loved Woody Allen's short pieces. I was equally influenced by Woody Allen and Norman Mailer. I was very into this idea of being high-low, of being serious and intellectual but also making really broad jokes.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • High
  • Serious

• Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Grass
  • Blades

• The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

  

  Christopher Nolan