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.
Quotes to Explore
-
But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
-
You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
-
After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every 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.
-
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
-
Every crowd has a 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!
-
Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
-
You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree.
-
I'm a plodder, not a planner.
-
The thing with Kerry is that all of this is a natural progression, her troubles. It's a cycle.
-
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
-
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.
-
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.
-
But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that.
-
Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents.
-
Teachers teach and students educate. Students are the only true educators. Historically, every other method of education has failed. Education occurs when students get excited about learning and apply themselves; students do this when they experience great teachers.
-
The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
-
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
-
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.
