David Bailey Quotes
It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
-
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
-
If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
-
I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
-
Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
-
I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.
-
Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
-
I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
-
I love people who dress how they feel and change it depending on the day.
-
I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.
-
There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
-
People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
-
I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.
-
People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
-
Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
-
There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
-
People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
-
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
-
The Queen has stayed with me in the sense that she lets people come to her. She doesn't feel like she has to go out. I mean, she doesn't have to anyway because of her rank and her position, but she doesn't have to overdo it.
-
I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
-
I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding of drama and a good ear for dialogue and also the rhythm of speech. Similarly, my 16 years in radio drama has influenced me. You only have 45 minutes, or 7,000 words, to tell a story, so every scene has to have a point.
-
The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way of delivering music has changed, the way of listening to it has changed, the way of distributing it has changed, but it's always the music.
-
There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
-
It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.
