Daniel Silva Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
-
I didn't know much about golf growing up.
-
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
-
If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
-
Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
-
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
-
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
-
I'm a real girly-girl.
-
You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.
-
If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.
-
I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
-
In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking.
-
I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.
-
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
-
My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
-
I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
-
I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
-
If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
-
Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
-
I have siblings. And there are certain things I know that I can push their buttons. And they know they have certain things where they can push mine.
-
When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.
-
Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
-
I'm not comfortable around guns.
