Paul Weller Quotes

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.

Paul Weller Incognito

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• For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.

  

  Haley Webb
  • Black
  • Myself
  • Woman

• There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Future
  • Successful

• I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Way
  • Better

• I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Body
  • Hollywood
  • Actress

• I like to laugh and make people have fun.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Fun
  • Laugh

• What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Power
  • Kind
  • Corrupt

• I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Important
  • Children

• Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.

  

  Carl Honore
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • World
  • Great
  • Important

• Oh, poverty parts good company.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Good
  • Poverty

• Bdelycleon: It is so that you may know only those who nourish you (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • May

• Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Criticism

• Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

  

  Bruce Lee

• I do know in the 1960s comics, Martian Manhunter took on the form of a black man - that could have been influenced by the political climate back then.

  

  David Harewood
  • Political
  • Black

• There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Good
  • Quality

• When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn't something I was focused on.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Attention

• Shoes define how you walk in the world and how you stand: like, what is your posture in life?

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Life
  • World
  • Shoes

• I can handle a lot of work. I've always been able to. I'm a very focused individual. I come to my studio at about 7:30 in the morning and exit almost 5:00 P.M. In that time, those eight or nine hours, it's kind of laser focus on whatever I'm working on. There aren't really any distractions or anything.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Time
  • Work
  • Morning

• That is the saddest thing: He Prince always thought I would die of a drug overdose, and here it happens he dies of an accidental overdose.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Sad
  • Prince
  • Drug Overdose

• I have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to me, but it definitely something that all artists have to deal with at one point or another. But I think for me, it's just maybe more specific.

  

  Sean Lennon
  • Thinking
  • Energy
  • Artist

• Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Child
  • Kingdom
  • Checkers

• Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.

  

  Joshua Waitzkin
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • Love It

• I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito