James Gray Quotes

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

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• Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Peace
  • Problems
  • Process

• I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Children
  • Hands
  • Reward

• Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Age
  • Actress
  • Hollyweird

• I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn't an interest that started there at all. In fact, when I started working at USC, I already had prototypes of the Rift that were very similar to the final design.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Reality
  • Years
  • Design

• Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Character
  • Years

• I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Friends
  • Community
  • Grew

• I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.

  

  Banks
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Pretty

• I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Time
  • History

• I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Life
  • City
  • Courage

• I went to Coachella once, and it was only to go see Leonard Cohen. I got in the car and sat through all the crazy traffic in L.A. to get there - instead of a two hour drive, it takes, like, six hours. Then I watched his set and turned around and left. I just so wanted to see him perform in the desert.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Crazy
  • Car
  • Desert

• My mum is Croatian, and obviously she's female and she's very emotional, very hot-blooded, very touchy-feely, whereas I think my dad's quite British.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • She
  • Think
  • Dad

• I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you're just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that's going on!

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Important
  • Day
  • Eyes

• Writing is the beast unto itself.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Writing
  • Beast
  • Unto

• Now a curse upon Because and his kin!

  

  Aleister Crowley

• When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • Job
  • Death
  • Joy

• There's no social media or Googling yourself. You only have to do it once to learn never to do it again.

  

  Colin Morgan

• Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

  

  Neil Simon
  • Money
  • Rest

• The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.

  

  Linda Lavin
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Men
  • Responsibility

• It's the demand of all demands to do a car chase that's unique because there are so many... really since the beginning of film, even in the silent era, 'The Keystone Cops.'

  

  James Gray
  • Beginning
  • Car
  • Unique

• I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Up
  • Question
  • Better

• My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

  

  James Gray
  • Grandparents