Diego Luna Quotes
When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
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At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.
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When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere.
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With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.
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He sees it totally differently. It's not because he's from there, but because it's family. He doesn't know when he's going to get that call saying something's happened to somebody.
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When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.
