David R. Ellis Quotes

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.

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• Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Help
  • Sense
  • Bewildering

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Bad
  • Places
  • Penny

• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Step
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime

• Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

  

  Mae West
  • Long
  • Want
  • Dresses

• 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

• Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Equality
  • Nobody
  • Anyway

• 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

• It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Take

• If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • You
  • Sick
  • Milk

• In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Character
  • Army
  • United States

• Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Play
  • Wall
  • Down

• You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Family
  • You
  • Yourself

• I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Morning

• Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Long
  • Live
  • Family

• They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

  

  Kate Millett
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Night
  • Wall
  • Write

• I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Job
  • Small

• Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

  

  Elizabeth David
  • Writing

• I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Country
  • Play

• Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.

  

  Garcelle Beauvais
  • Relationship
  • Perfect
  • Divorce

• As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• There's a lot of 'Game of Thrones' stuff used in a lot of pastiches. I don't know if I've seen a Lego 'Game of Thrones' yet, but there must be one. And there's an animated thing that's been going on for quite some time, and Littlefinger is a newsreader in it, and it's great.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Game

• It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.

  

  David R. Ellis
  • Great