David Bailey Quotes

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

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• I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Want
  • Learned
  • Lesson

• An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

  

  Ice T
  • Control
  • Party
  • Rock

• Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Past
  • Person
  • New

• To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • Love
  • Guy
  • Community

• I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Colleagues

• I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Against

• To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • Mind
  • History
  • Perspective

• Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Light

• I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Work
  • Day
  • Start

• Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Woman

• Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Life
  • War
  • Die

• I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Science

• I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Really
  • Fascinated

• Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Good
  • May
  • Action

• There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Want
  • Stars
  • Type

• People know me for up – tempo songs because of my hits.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • People
  • Know
  • Songs

• Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

  

  Ovid
  • You
  • Victory
  • Crown

• Dr. Louis Bush Swisher died from the complications of a brain aneurysm that burst without warning one sunny Sunday morning less than 40 years ago.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Morning
  • Brain
  • Years

• My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

  

  Johnny Vegas

• And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Faults

• The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Children
  • America

• You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.

  

  Kirk Kerkorian
  • People

• Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished.

  

  Charles Bartlett Johnson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Black

• You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

  

  David Bailey