Pedro Almodovar Quotes

I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity.

Pedro Almodovar

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• I grew up as a country boy.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Country
  • Boy

• A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Live
  • Human
  • Honor

• When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • She
  • Story
  • Find

• The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Nice
  • Again
  • Be Nice

• I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • Sports
  • My Life

• When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Great
  • Book
  • Game

• I open the doors for everybody all the time.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Doors
  • Open

• No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Real
  • Past

• I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Want
  • Best
  • Look

• If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Son
  • Feel
  • Sad

• People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Financial

• Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Power
  • Innocence
  • Convinced

• In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • People
  • Why
  • Age

• Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Difficult
  • Short

• It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • Never
  • Old

• A team is a team.

  

  Jamal Lewis
  • Team

• Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo.

  

  Jacques Verges
  • Children

• You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Time
  • Space
  • Learn

• I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• God is within you. God is a nice feeling. He's the flowers and smells and the nice things in life.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Nice
  • Feelings
  • Flower

• I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity.

  

  Pedro Almodovar
  • Time
  • Growing
  • Flower