Phyllida Lloyd Quotes

I realised you could become fat and bald as a director and still remain employable.

Phyllida Lloyd

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• Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Why
  • Death

• I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Myself
  • Hard
  • I Can

• I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Science
  • Process
  • Discovery

• I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Story
  • Script

• Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Goals
  • Give
  • Him

• Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Movie
  • Small

• To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Man
  • Humanity
  • Monster

• I think it's as popular as it ever has been and it continues to grow as it does all around the world.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • World
  • Think
  • Popular

• I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.

  

  Nancy Wake
  • Always
  • Natural
  • Very

• I always had an interest in telling stories.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Always
  • Interest
  • Telling

• I saved every script I'd ever worked on as an actor.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Actor
  • Ever
  • Saved

• To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Period

• Shall I, like an hermit, dwellOn a rock or in a cell?

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Rock

• If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Gun

• When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Failure
  • Advice

• Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

  

  Wendell Berry

• He is not bound so tightly by tradition that he will refuse a good idea simply for it being new, and not so wild that he would take a bad idea simply because it is new.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Good
  • Bad

• Optimism is cowardice.

  

  Oswald Spengler

• I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.

  

  Cy Coleman
  • Trying

• I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

  

  David Letterman
  • Dance

• 'Arrested Development' is great; Mitch Hurwitz is great. Plus, it's the one show I've ever had where, on the small parts, he just let me cast people.

  

  Allison Jones
  • People
  • Great
  • Small

• When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • School
  • Wrestling
  • Matches

• I trust my wife more than I trust myself.

  

  Chris Paul
  • Wife
  • Trust

• I realised you could become fat and bald as a director and still remain employable.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd