Darren Aronofsky Quotes

Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in.

Darren Aronofsky

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• Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Finish

• In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • People
  • True
  • Risk

• I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Father
  • House

• I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Different
  • Real
  • Together

• There is no accountability in soft money. None.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • Money
  • Accountability
  • Soft

• A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Value

• Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Light
  • Style
  • Creativity

• There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Up
  • Think
  • Energy

• I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were targeting delegates and still trying to talk to people, which is what keeps me going as a human being.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Trying
  • Me

• High expectations are the key to everything.

  

  Sam Walton
  • High
  • Leadership
  • Expectations

• People have paid for content. They always have.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Always
  • Content

• We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Some folks can look so busy doin' nothin' that they seem indispensable.

  

  Kin Hubbard

• What's your name, new best friend?

  

  Kevin Smith
  • Friend

• One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • World
  • Education
  • Alone

• 'Is there anyone or anything in this city which can’t be bought?' I said, slipping him a note.'Yeah,' the man said, laughing quietly. 'But I’m not it.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • City

• What am I looking at? I want to eat you like a tossed fucking salad!

  

  Andrew Dice Clay

• Since stars appear to be suns, and suns, according to the common opinion, are bodies that serve to enlighten, warm, and sustain a system of planets, we may have an idea of the numberless globes that serve for the habitaton of living creatures.

  

  William Herschel
  • Opinion
  • Moon
  • Common

• In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Men
  • Money
  • Business

• We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

  

  Mike Patton Faith No More
  • Happy
  • Bums

• I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to make a decision what I was going to go to college for, and at the time, I also painted and sculpted. I got more attention for my performing, so I thought that was a better idea.

  

  Josh Young
  • Decision
  • Performing
  • Visual artist

• Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

  

  Neil Armstrong
  • Joy
  • Walking
  • Flying

• Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in.

  

  Darren Aronofsky