Eric Cantona Quotes

I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.

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• When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Night
  • Busy
  • Quiet

• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Earth
  • Hot

• I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • New York
  • Lipstick

• Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Mean
  • Show
  • Just Because

• I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Different
  • House
  • Air

• We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

  

  Otis Williams The Temptations
  • Want
  • Career
  • Girl

• It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Freedom
  • Myself
  • Imagination

• As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Want
  • Everyone
  • Bubble

• I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Change
  • Style
  • Season

• Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • People
  • Art
  • Religion

• I know I'm really lucky to do what I do, but sometimes with the hours and the travelling, I don't get to see my family and friends as much as I'd like. It can be lonely on the road. Sometimes I come offstage after a massive adrenaline rush, and then when I go to an empty hotel room on my own, it can be an anti-climax.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Road

• But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Heart
  • Society
  • Alone

• No government functions without the grease of corruption.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Grease

• Yes mam. I'm sorry you've had such troubles. Mm-hmm. Sorry. Don’t need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • People
  • Death
  • House

• It must be hard to be exclusively social and entirely friendless at the same time.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Time

• For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.

  

  Jay Baruchel
  • Done
  • Home
  • American

• Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • People
  • Mind
  • Movie

• If you're on a bus and going down a snowy mountain like in Tahoe, and the bus loses its brakes, where do you want to be sitting? Immediately, you all think, 'In the back.' But in the front would be the correct answer. As a quarterback, you want to take control of it.

  

  Jared Goff
  • Control
  • Mountain

• So make it your aim and lifelong habit, when you see someone who's serving, to be reminded of the sacrifice of the Savior, for apart from His sacrifice there is no serving.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Habit
  • Sacrifice

• I would say just in general, in life, I'm more willing to be animated as a person, and so obviously onstage as well.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Life

• Win or lose, do it fairly.

  

  Knute Rockne

• I think work is a privilege. ... It keeps you alive, spiritually.

  

  Denton Cooley
  • Alive
  • Privilege
  • Spiritually

• I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.

  

  Eric Cantona