James Wan Quotes

I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.

James Wan

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• I wasn't trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn't want to be fake.

  

  Yuna
  • Want
  • Challenges
  • Fake

• It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

  

  Jack Lynch
  • Police
  • Force
  • Obvious

• If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Television

• When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Desire
  • Myself

• While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • New
  • Building

• The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Life
  • Real
  • Father

• As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one sees, because of the presence of the Hindu-Buddhist past, Hindus still living there or Muslims performing rituals that are instantly familiar.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Past
  • You
  • Living

• I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • World
  • Bad
  • Doing

• One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Know
  • Relationship

• In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Opinion
  • Changes
  • Fix

• My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Children
  • Family
  • Stupid

• I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Good
  • Music
  • Words

• The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Want
  • You
  • Comfortable

• My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an intimate view of one's fellow humans, the privilege of being there and helping other people at their most vulnerable moments.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• Then, as always, I felt morally obligated to advocate our official position, even when it conflicted with my personal views.

  

  Clarence Thomas

• How many is there, John?.Did you learn to whisper in a sawmill?

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• Even with the beauty stories we put out, we saw there was an opportunity to address issues of representation, identity, self-expression. We created the community that we wanted to have at 'Teen Vogue.' We were willing to lose some to have more.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Opportunity
  • Community
  • Identity

• Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags." This was typical. My father, the lone male in our estrogen-heavy household, had always dealt with any kind of emotional situation or conflict by doing something concrete and specific. Discussion of cramps and heavy flow at the breakfast table? He was up and out the door to change oil on one of our cars. Coming home in tears for reasons you just didn't want to discuss? He'd go make you a grilled cheese, which he'd probably end up eating. Family crisis brewing in a public place? Bags. Get the bags.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Home
  • Father
  • Kind

• Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Freedom
  • Grace
  • Salvation

• If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.

  

  Beth Gutcheon
  • Interesting

• People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

  

  Carol Plum-Ucci
  • People
  • Long

• Fritz Lang was one of my dearest, dearest friends. I loved working with him.

  

  Sylvia Sidney
  • Friend
  • Working
  • Dearest

• I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.

  

  James Wan