Boman Irani Quotes

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

Boman Irani

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• Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Truth
  • Passion
  • Laugh

• I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Different
  • Movies
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• The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Life
  • Long
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• If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • World
  • Change

• Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • She
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• Retiring is the easy way out.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Way
  • Easy
  • Easy Way

• There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Nature
  • Lines
  • Colour

• What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Work
  • Man
  • Woman

• I've never had a job. I've never needed to.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Job
  • Never
  • Needed

• Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Home
  • American
  • Community

• Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Important
  • Success
  • Being

• In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Fighting
  • Place
  • Debate

• Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Time
  • Sun
  • Beauty

• A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Air
  • Pessimist
  • Who

• There are two types of women out there: there's the kind of woman who finds something nice and likes to keep it to herself, and then there's the other type, which is me, who wants to share.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Nice
  • Kind

• I have a very broad range of life experiences.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • Life
  • Very
  • Experiences

• I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Love
  • Theatre
  • Bills

• You look out into the audience and you see so much joy on people's faces. You make eye contact with people who are almost crying because they can't believe they're seeing the Rumours five back again, they can't believe their eyes. It's almost like a family reunion on stage, there's no angst, there's no animosity, there's just tremendous amount of friendship.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Believe
  • Joy
  • Audience

• Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Believe
  • Smart

• An actor gets to take a nap, but the director is working hard from dawn till midnight. I'm kind of lazy.

  

  Michael Horse
  • Actor
  • Director

• My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Words

• The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Work
  • Different
  • Giving

• For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

  

  Boman Irani
  • Audience
  • Director
  • Gender