Martin McDonagh Quotes

I loved 'The Master' a lot. I'm not going to get to work with Daniel Day-Lewis, but Joaquin Phoenix is one of the best around, I think.

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• I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Drama
  • Artists
  • Dramatic

• I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Want
  • Know
  • Style

• Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • City
  • Air
  • Sun

• There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Learning
  • Fight

• The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Looks
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• I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Books

• I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Good
  • Success
  • Light

• I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • People
  • Love
  • Faith

• To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Mind
  • Person
  • Adventure

• Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Want
  • Song
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• Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

  

  Val Guest
  • Writing
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  • Bad

• Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.

  

  T. J. Miller
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  • Voice
  • Listen

• Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Good
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• I don't talk in ifs.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
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• The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Think
  • Decision
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• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Dark

• When I got to Iraq, my world focused in on one mission. It was incredibly rewarding.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • World
  • Mission
  • Focused

• So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

  

  Daryl Hannah

• To be honest, there are so many things I learned in acting school beyond the method; it was a safe place to practice. So acting school was about exercising that acting muscle and doing it every single day - and having people tell you that you're bad every single day! Which pushes you to work even harder.

  

  Jane Levy
  • People
  • Work
  • School

• You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Failure

• People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• I loved 'The Master' a lot. I'm not going to get to work with Daniel Day-Lewis, but Joaquin Phoenix is one of the best around, I think.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Work
  • Phoenix