James Gray Quotes

I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'

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• My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Learning

• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Easy

• What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Negative

• The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Political
  • Party

• My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Jewish

• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Up
  • Never
  • Child

• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Look

• Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Kids
  • Model
  • Inspiration

• Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Taken
  • Values
  • Abuse

• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Lost
  • Ground
  • Middle East

• Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Up
  • Painting
  • Look

• I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Music
  • Something
  • More

• I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Small
  • Just
  • Other

• Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Opportunity
  • Dance
  • Floor

• Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Grumpy

• No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Never

• I don't have a typical filmmaker background. I didn't grow up with a super eight camera or a video camera. I didn't start cutting movies when I was four or five.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Up
  • Start
  • Cutting

• I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Guitar

• I'm actually very sensitive about those things, and it's personally painful...You know, whenever they made fun of my makeup, it was because the newspapers colorized my photograph.

  

  Katherine Harris
  • Fun
  • Makeup

• When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Night
  • Homeless
  • Minimum Wage

• When I first started as a cover band, I built everything based on hanging out every night after the shows and talking to as many people as I can and making relationships.

  

  Chris Lane
  • People
  • Night
  • Band

• I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Home
  • Night
  • Man

• You never see yourself as that interesting. You're like, 'Really? Me? You want a picture with me? I'm boring!' But if I saw somebody like Simon Pegg or Johnny Depp, or one of my heroes, I'd get totally starstruck and want to go ask them for a picture.

  

  Dylan Everett
  • Interesting
  • Picture

• I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'

  

  James Gray
  • Night