David Copperfield Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars on a holiday weekend.
-
Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
-
I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
-
We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
-
He who awaits much can expect little.
-
My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
-
Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.
-
That was a huge part of my training, doing improv in Chicago.
-
Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
-
To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
-
I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.
-
Luxury is a state of mind.
-
I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
-
Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
-
I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.
-
The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.
-
You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
-
There's so many great designers. I'm a little bit of a vintage junkie when it comes to going out. I like to get unique pieces that you won't see everyone wearing, but at the same time I don't like to break the bank. I like to find great vintage pieces that you can hold on to for a long time.
-
We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.
-
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
-
I can cry at the drop of a hat. I've always found that easier than laughing in films.
-
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.
-
Let sleeping dogs lie - who wants to rouse 'em?
