James Gandolfini Quotes

I like idiotic comedies.

James Gandolfini

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• The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Long
  • May
  • Age

• We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Always
  • Progress

• When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Business
  • Career
  • Look

• The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Think
  • You
  • Difference

• I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

  

  Sam Houston
  • World
  • Man
  • Thought

• With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Drama
  • Act
  • Opening

• To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Understanding
  • End

• I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • Live
  • Pretty

• I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Know
  • Find
  • Street

• Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Sometimes

• Lying can never save us from another lie.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Lying
  • Lie
  • Save

• Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • World
  • Love
  • Better

• For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Tragedy
  • Heartache

• I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.

  

  Yana Kudryavtseva
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Education

• Instead of deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament, universal suffrage was to serve the people, constituted in Communes, as individual suffrage serves every other employer in the search for the workmen and managers in his business.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Business
  • Search

• Three years after the CCTV headquarters fire in Beijing in February 2009, human skeletons lie forgotten. Is anyone accountable?

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Fire
  • February

• Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling us the 'guitar army' and all this stuff.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People
  • Cool
  • Army

• There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Song
  • Ideas

• I feel that, for each show I've been doing, there's a character that dominates. Then in the next show it plays a smaller part, and then in the next it has a sort of cameo piece. So they all have their moment.

  

  Marcel Dzama
  • Character

• What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs. We have so many other competing forms of media. I don't take any audience members for granted.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Worry
  • Competition

• One time, I had a guy, when I was performing at Caesar's Palace, and during the course of the show, I offered him an anniversary gift for him and his wife, and it was her watch wrapped in a little package.

  

  Apollo Robbins
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Wife

• I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since.

  

  Stephen Pagliuca
  • Education
  • Teacher
  • Economics

• I like idiotic comedies.

  

  James Gandolfini