David Fincher Quotes

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

David Fincher

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• I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Me
  • Travel

• I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Woman

• On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Character
  • Job
  • Feeling

• You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • inspirational
  • Rather

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• The great object is that every man be armed.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Great
  • War
  • Man

• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Know
  • Steps
  • Forward

• I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Life
  • Good
  • Children

• I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Think
  • Actor
  • Starting

• Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Up
  • America
  • Think

• I hope we can get to a point where women players are being paid properly all around the world so the only thing they have to worry about is playing football and playing football alone.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Women
  • Hope

• You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.

  

  Ed Skrein
  • You
  • Powerful
  • Aggressive

• No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Yourself
  • Potential
  • Surgeon

• Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

  

  Mae West
  • Long
  • Man
  • Find

• Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Great
  • Planet
  • Terrorism

• Don Was is a friend of mine; we've done projects together over the years.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Done
  • Together
  • Friend

• One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Children
  • House
  • Democracy

• In rock 'n' roll it's really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it's about pausing, about internal life, it's about internal triggers - that's one of the reasons I'm really challenged to do a play.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Rock

• Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Desire
  • Taken
  • Mood

• The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trouble

• If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into the error of the pre-War period and make enemies of God and the world; it must recognize the most dangerous enemy and strike at him with all its concentrated power. And if this victory is obtained through sacrifices elsewhere, the coming generations of our people will not condemn us.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Nation
  • German
  • Europe

• I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

  

  David Fincher