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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• Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• 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

• The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Success
  • Story
  • Achieve

• 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

• When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • You
  • Film
  • Plan

• California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Running

• I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• 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

• I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Career
  • Athlete
  • Own

• The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • End
  • Part

• 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
  • Dream

• 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

• Dylan is free now to work on his own terms. It would be foolish to predict what he will do next. But hopefully he will remain a mediator, using the language of pop to transcend it. If the gap between past and present continues to widen, such mediation may be crucial. In a communications crisis, the true prophets are the translators.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Work
  • May
  • True

• Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul-this is the miser’s curse-this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Power
  • Soul

• If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • High
  • Want
  • Problems

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

  

  Martin Scorsese