Donald Pleasence Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
-
The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
-
Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
-
I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
-
I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.
-
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
-
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
-
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
-
The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
-
Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.
-
Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
-
What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.
-
It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.
-
I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.
-
I like fighters who come to fight.
-
Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.
-
The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.
-
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.
-
It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
-
There's a really fine line between artistic license and artistic licentiousness. And history is a lousy filmmaker. It doesn't give you all the ingredients you need. No story will quite fulfill that three-act structure.
-
It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
-
Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
-
Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping — anon — anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone.
-
It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.
