Martin Seligman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
-
I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
-
I was considered an ugly duckling.
-
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
-
When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
-
I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
-
The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
-
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
-
I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
-
There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
-
I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
-
Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.
-
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
-
If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
-
To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.
-
I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
-
Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?
-
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
-
Governor Romney is a good debater.
-
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this bubble of showbiz and you only know people who make movies, you don't really have an understanding of the world outside.
-
It's important to me that there's not just one story told about our city. 'LSD' is an ode to Chicago, a song for the complicated love I have for my city.
-
But what I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim. And it is important, in this seat, to make sure that you're making your best judgments based on data, intelligence, the information that's coming from your commanders and folks on the ground and you're not being swayed by politics.
-
Reaching beyond where you are is really important.
