David Lyons Quotes

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

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• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• Follow the yellow brick road.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Road
  • Follow
  • Yellow

• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

  Nas
  • Country
  • American
  • Me

• I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Work
  • Think
  • Habits

• I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Flying
  • Own
  • Leave

• I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

  

  Sam Neill
  • World
  • Acting
  • Sea

• History's a resource.

  

  Laura Linney
  • History
  • Resource

• Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.

  

  Adam Braun
  • People
  • Long
  • High

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • Fear
  • Silence

• I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Acting
  • Place
  • Opera

• I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Bored
  • Take
  • Seriously

• I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Up
  • Done
  • Kids

• My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Age
  • Father

• I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Watch
  • Him
  • Watched

• David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Work
  • Been
  • Netflix

• I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Men
  • Home
  • Beer

• I went from never doing interviews to doing 10 in one day and standing in front of 60,000 fans. Now people look up to me, and I'm seeing little girls wearing my jersey.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • People
  • Up

• In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Faith
  • Health care

• I carry around a black leather Moleskine journal all the time. And I always write ideas down, especially when I'm on set and working with actors like Jeremy Irons and Viola Davis and learning from them.

  

  Alden Ehrenreich
  • Time
  • Black
  • Learning

• In 'The Interestings' I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.

  

  Meg Wolitzer
  • People
  • Time

• With the advance of feudalism came the growth of iron armor, until, at last, a fighting-man resembled an armadillo.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • Fighting
  • Growth

• Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

  

  David Lyons
  • Great
  • Fighting
  • Boxing