David Hockney Quotes
I've started painting much more freely, and faster. I think it's working in the theatre that did it. You know what the Glyndebourne scene-painters said about my The Magic Flute? They said they had to wear sunglasses to paint it.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
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In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.
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Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.
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I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.
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I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it's going to be the place for communications, for education, for conducting business and everything.
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I came out of a family background that involved itself with people.
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Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.
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Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.
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I've started painting much more freely, and faster. I think it's working in the theatre that did it. You know what the Glyndebourne scene-painters said about my The Magic Flute? They said they had to wear sunglasses to paint it.
