Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.

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• My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

  

  Jack Black
  • Play
  • Tough
  • Transition

• We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

  

  T-Pain
  • Learn
  • Surroundings
  • Adjust

• By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • Government
  • Christian
  • Religious

• I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Best

• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Blame

• My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • People
  • You
  • Me

• I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Power
  • Feel
  • Communication

• If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Son
  • Cat
  • Pictures

• In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• Obviously, 'Lincoln' is not about the telegraph operator. There's a whole other movie before and after the two isolated scenes that I'm in.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Movie
  • Two
  • Before

• I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It's a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Together
  • Control

• I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Interesting
  • Most
  • Parts

• I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Live
  • Night
  • Like

• I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Want
  • Struggle
  • Emotional

• To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Up
  • World
  • Friends

• I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Nice
  • Film
  • Tears

• By just passing through things, I continue to slightly limit myself. I want the jobs that don't say that much. I'm often the stepping stone or the conduit from one thing to another. I love the idea of existing in a film and growing and having bigger arcs, and being in scenes where you're just being, as opposed to talking. That' one of my ambitions, lying ahead.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Growing
  • Ideas
  • Film

• I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.

  

  Satyajit Ray
  • Long
  • Film
  • Novel

• I'm about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions.

  

  Steven Rodney McQueen
  • People
  • Challenging
  • Assumptions

• Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Film
  • Sequel
  • A Perfect World