Diego Della Valle Quotes
I worked in the family business, which was my father's shoe making company that he had inherited from his father, and that led me to become interested in what could be achieved by a great Italian brand. That became my ambition as a young man.
Quotes to Explore
-
We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
-
I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
-
We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
-
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
-
Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
-
Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
-
Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
-
The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
-
Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
-
Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
-
Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
-
I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.
-
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
-
I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
-
People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
-
The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
-
Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
-
All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
-
I started as a documentary maker, and they're my first love.
-
Bizarrely, I actually feel safer the older I get, like people will expect less from me, and I can become more and more invisible, yet more and more eccentric.
-
You don't hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam.
-
I really want to be just a singer-songwriter. That's who I am.
-
Wild globalisation has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.
-
I worked in the family business, which was my father's shoe making company that he had inherited from his father, and that led me to become interested in what could be achieved by a great Italian brand. That became my ambition as a young man.
