Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they'll do something you didn't even think they were capable of.
Quotes to Explore
-
What other people think of me is none of my business.
-
I'm really not worried about what fans think.
-
I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
-
I think if you're constantly reinvesting into your content and giving the fans stuff, then you can continue to tour. You can continue to sell the merch and monetize the popularity of the brand.
-
I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
-
I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.
-
I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.
-
I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
-
I started visiting schools and talking to kids about bullying and what to do and how to deal with it. I don't think that there is one person who has lived life without being bullied. Everybody gets bullied - whether it's cyber-bullying or to your face or behind your back.
-
Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.
-
I've never seen a single episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance.'
-
Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.
-
We try not to pull any punches and be straightforward, and I think that's what helped us connect with everybody across the board.
-
When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
-
I think everybody can relate to loving somebody and them bringing out a wild side in you.
-
I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.
-
I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
-
We do not want to go to the U.K. and take something from them. We do not want to be parasites. We want to work there, and I think that Hungarians are working well.
-
You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right.
-
As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.
-
In Russia, we have proverb: Only bad soldiers don't want to be general.
-
If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
-
Here's some bumper stickers I'd like to see:
-
When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they'll do something you didn't even think they were capable of.
