Neil Jordan (Neil Patrick Jordan) Quotes

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

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• Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Acting

• Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Study
  • Create
  • Often

• If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Love
  • Opinion
  • Functional

• About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Helped

• Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn't fully appreciate the complexity of what's going on. Consequently, I worry about whether he's going to make the problems a whole lot better... But I am a Republican, and we really should give the guy a chance to govern and hope he's successful.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Chance
  • Trump
  • Successful

• The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Beauty
  • Independence

• Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Done
  • City
  • Positive

• When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • School
  • Business
  • Leader

• I'm an easy date. I meant cheap date, cheap date!

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Easy
  • Date
  • Cheap

• California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Running

• Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Decision
  • Goal
  • Discussion

• I'm not difficult to work with, trust me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Work
  • Trust
  • Difficult

• I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Job
  • Myself
  • Dog

• I always train 100 percent.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Always
  • Train
  • Percent

• I have always prided myself on if, hypothetically, the entertainment industry just dissolved, just went away today, I feel that I have enough marketable skills that I could still contribute to society and make a difference. I'm a very good typist.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Good
  • Today
  • Society

• I've been urged by people forever to try and start a real Rock Hall of Fame. I've had some very, very preliminary discussions about doing it. Obviously, I can't do it myself, but there are a lot of people interested in that.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Real
  • Myself

• Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Speak

• Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • Desire
  • Water

• My father had been an avid fan of Chaplin during the silent film days, but when the talkies came along, my father lost all interest in movies.

  

  Claude Picasso
  • Father
  • Lost

• Faults They came to tell your faults to me, They named them over one by one; I laughed aloud when they were done, I knew them all so well before,-- Oh, they were blind, too blind to see Your faults had made me love you more.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Done
  • Made
  • Wells

• I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Paint
  • Miracles
  • Wasting

• Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away from the truth and deliverance. . . . Yet ignorance is so far from breaking the despair or changing despair to nondespairing that it can in fact be the most dangerous form of despair. . . . An individual is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair. But precisely this-not to be conscious of oneself as spirit-is despair, which is spiritlessness. . . .

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Truth
  • Spirit
  • Conscious

• For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

  

  Neil Jordan