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

• 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
  • Day

• 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

• Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Good
  • Home

• Like the way we get to know about the society of Korea, Iran, and other countries through their films, people will get to know about our country. Our films are a mirror of our society.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Country
  • Society

• It wasn't a typical 'Let's go play catch in the backyard' sort of father-son relationship. We always went to job sites with him.

  

  Donald Trump, Jr.
  • Job
  • Father
  • Relationship

• My mom and I were super close when I was a kid, her and I sort of ran off from her ex-husband. It wasn't such a good time for us and I remember listening to The Distillers with her. One time I actually asked her, 'Mom, can I shave my head into a mohawk?'

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • My Mom

• I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

  

  John Galliano
  • Believe
  • Discipline

• 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