Elliot Knight Quotes

I'd had four auditions for 'Sinbad' when I got the phone call. I was in the Trafford Centre in Manchester, and I screamed very loudly. Then I ran outside, and I screamed some more.

Elliot Knight

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• One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Culture
  • Alone
  • Thought

• How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Believe
  • War

• When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Fun
  • Want
  • You

• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Cabaret
  • Mohicans

• The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Problem
  • Jerusalem
  • Grandeur

• Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Men
  • Women
  • Change

• I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • Very
  • Little

• I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • World
  • Women
  • Trying

• For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Years
  • Idea
  • Nobody

• I really only worked for about a month on 'Meatballs.' What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with 'Animal House' except the producer. So he thought he'd better start directing.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • House
  • Thought
  • Animal

• They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Up
  • May
  • You

• Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Work
  • Important
  • Job

• You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Live
  • Simple
  • Desert

• I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Time
  • Artist
  • Step

• I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Situation
  • Ego

• You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Music
  • Want

• Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

  

  Laura Riding
  • People
  • Art
  • Friendship

• To love your family, love your work, live your purpose and be unconditionally grateful for every moment of your life... is to succeed at the highest level (in my opinion).

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Talent
  • Genius
  • Achieve

• I have had to answer questions like, 'But you don't look like lead material.' Now, I still don't know what 'lead material' looks like because everyone has eyes, a nose, and a face.

  

  Swara Bhaskar
  • Eyes
  • Questions
  • Lead Material

• I'm like the LION, i'm not the GAZELLE.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Lion
  • Gazelle

• I'd had four auditions for 'Sinbad' when I got the phone call. I was in the Trafford Centre in Manchester, and I screamed very loudly. Then I ran outside, and I screamed some more.

  

  Elliot Knight