Bill Condon Quotes

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

Bill Condon

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• But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Said

• You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Baby
  • Matter
  • Parent

• Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Up
  • Tired

• My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Me
  • Law
  • Dad

• If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • House
  • Earth
  • Words

• After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • God
  • Family
  • Day

• I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Important
  • Energy

• When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Painting
  • Doing

• Every crowd has a silver lining.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Crowd
  • Silver
  • Lining

• I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Director
  • Manager
  • Hometown

• Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Small
  • Place
  • Liberal

• You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Want
  • Know
  • Plan

• I'm a plodder, not a planner.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Planner

• The thing with Kerry is that all of this is a natural progression, her troubles. It's a cycle.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Natural
  • Troubles
  • Progression

• It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Earth
  • Energy
  • Growing

• I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Time
  • Week
  • Doctor

• When the founder of World Energy Solutions Inc. assembled his first board in 2000, it consisted of nine investors and friends. The group met quarterly, generally affirming Domaleski's every action. But the Worcester, Mass., company, which auctions electricity and gas credits, lacked customers and financing. It needed more from its board to survive.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • World
  • Friends
  • Energy

• Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, forcing them to rely on debt to fund education, housing, and health care.

  

  George Packer
  • Power
  • Education
  • Health

• Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Very
  • Throw

• I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Words

• Change is the law of God's mind and resistance to it is the source of all pain.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • God
  • Mind
  • Law

• All things – great, small, good, bad, friend, enemy—should be a lesson, not an obsession.

  

  Eugene J. Martin
  • Enemy
  • Lesson
  • Obsession

• I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

  

  Bill Condon