James Wan Quotes

My first film out of the gate was financially so successful that I guess, being in Hollywood, you get kind of put into a certain box.

James Wan

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• I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Never
  • Lucky

• I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • Happy

• The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Work
  • Job
  • Challenge

• I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Gone
  • Bands
  • Had

• There is no one true church.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • True
  • Church

• I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Up
  • Light
  • Single

• We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Power
  • Creativity
  • Destroy

• Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Culture
  • India
  • Where

• We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Man

• These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cute, but they will bite. Not only do I look at dogs as animals, I look at myself as an animal, which explains why, since I got my permit, I drive with my head out the window.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Why
  • Myself

• I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • School
  • High
  • Dad

• I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Waiting
  • Lunch
  • Coat

• I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Life
  • Live
  • Amazing

• I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.

  

  Tcheky Karyo
  • Exciting
  • Quite
  • Improvisation

• I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Want
  • Own
  • My Own

• I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Work
  • Different

• If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Career
  • Never
  • Greatest

• I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Feet

• I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment.

  

  Jean O'Leary
  • Support
  • Sex

• My mother had me when she was 16, and that was an issue that had to be dealt with. She grew up in a very religious background, and there was a lot of discussion of what they should do with this unborn child. But here I am, and thank goodness.

  

  Carmen Cusack
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• Learn your craft well. Take care of your own business. Success (popularity) is fleeting for most, but longevity lies in a quality craft with integrity. Oh, and don't take yourself too seriously.

  

  Oleta Adams
  • Business
  • Success
  • Quality

• On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Satisfaction

• Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual transgression, followed by assertions of parental authority and concern. And don’t look for sexual enlightenment from academe, which spews out mountains of books but never looks at life directly.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Enlightenment

• My first film out of the gate was financially so successful that I guess, being in Hollywood, you get kind of put into a certain box.

  

  James Wan