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

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

  

  Andrew Dice Clay

• It's really hard to do this life - to be a human being alone.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Life
  • Human being

• I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.

  

  Esha Gupta
  • Law
  • Communication
  • Actress

• None of the black abolitionist newspapers, the first of which appeared in 1827, was in existence after the Civil War.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • War
  • Black

• This is a terrible time to be young, I think. It's really hard.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Young
  • Hard
  • Terrible Time

• If you want a model for what is possible, if you want to see how to build a peaceful and prosperous and dynamic society, then look at Berlin and look at Germany.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Society
  • Model
  • Looks

• 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