Martin Scorsese Quotes

It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.

Martin Scorsese

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• It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Success
  • Years
  • Overnight

• In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'

  

  Gaston Lachaise
  • Career
  • Woman
  • Vision

• Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Hope
  • See
  • Author

• I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Music
  • High
  • Always

• NHL clubs don't like having to shut down at a critical part of the season and disrupt our season for anything, let alone a situation where we're not given an opportunity to promote our presence.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Opportunity
  • Alone
  • Down

• Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Creative

• No one can live under degradation.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Live
  • Degradation

• The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Man

• Easter is one of my favorite holidays with the kids. They get to run loose, and we always have our family and loved ones all around us!

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Loved

• Life is wonderful beautiful journey. Every episode of my life is like a dream, and I am at peace and happy with what life has given me.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must surely have heard of us: we were called oracles, nymphs, spirits, fairies, household gods, lemures, larvas, lamias, sprites, water-nymphs, incubi, shades, spirits of the dead, specters and ghosts.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac
  • People
  • World
  • Water

• My dear Hardman, It was pleasant... I am sorry that your Oriental venture has not been going as well as you expected. But, then, I think that the days when a man could expect to make his fortune in the East are dead and gone. Indeed, the time seems to have come for the reverse of the old process to apply, and for the East to dominate the West.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Time
  • Sorry

• Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

  

  Lynne Cheney
  • Family
  • Nature

• The fact that people are actually shaving their eyebrows is very flattering. But it's crazy that people are singing songs I wrote in my bedroom.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Singing

• When you live with a photographer, you never have a day off - it was a nightmare.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Live

• You only get one shot to do a first feature.

  

  Duncan Jones

• One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

  

  James Caan
  • Guy
  • Night
  • Son

• That's my one rule: always take off my makeup; no matter how tired I am before going to bed, it comes off!

  

  Amber Le Bon
  • Tired
  • Makeup

• The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Way
  • Victim
  • Deceit

• I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • School
  • America
  • Focus

• Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Today
  • Dream

• You know who you are, but know not who you could be.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Knows

• It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.

  

  Martin Scorsese