Chris Adami Quotes
I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'
Quotes to Explore
-
When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
-
You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
-
Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
-
I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
-
I don't care about revenues.
-
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
-
I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
-
I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
-
I have a great office.
-
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
-
I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
-
I don't feel closeted.
-
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
-
It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
-
The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
-
I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
-
There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
-
Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
-
I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.
-
When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
-
I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.
-
Do you think you have the right to give me orders now?" The Archangel of New York, a creature so lethal that part of her feared him even now, lifted the hair off her nape, brushed his lips across her skin. "Of course. You are mine." No hint of humor, nothing but stark possession. "I don't think you've quite got the hang of this true love thing.
-
I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'
