Phyllida Lloyd Quotes
To have Hollywood tell me or other women like me that we're not a market that interests them is silly. Good stories work.
Quotes to Explore
-
Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.
-
There have been numerous tips and numerous people offering advice. I appreciate it because it all comes with good feelings from the heart. But some of it we'll apply, and some things we won't.
-
Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
-
I'm an exercise and yoga junkie and I feel good.
-
I work out every day. My friends say that I became an actress by chance; I should have become a gym trainer. I am the most grumpiest and irritable person if I don't work out for two days. You cannot have a conversation with me.
-
I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.
-
There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.
-
While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.
-
Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
-
My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
-
I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.
-
I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.
-
Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
-
Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.
-
Women have been kicking ass for centuries.
-
I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.
-
There's no good guys and bad guys.
-
If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.
-
Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while others think the best of me because of the good experience they had with my grandfather. It's difficult to digest the fact that they may never see me for who I am.
-
So, then, even the dust is a resting-place of hope for the people of God.
-
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
-
It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.
-
To have Hollywood tell me or other women like me that we're not a market that interests them is silly. Good stories work.
