Jamie Bell Quotes

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

Jamie Bell

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• I'm not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Respect
  • Trash
  • Talker

• India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.

  

  Yoshiro Mori
  • Relationship
  • Technology

• I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Brother
  • Famous
  • Big Brother

• Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Confidence
  • Create
  • Greed

• All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Want

• Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Book
  • America
  • Same

• I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Same
  • Sword

• What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Up
  • Very
  • Most

• The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • History
  • Realization

• Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Internet
  • Might
  • Holocaust

• One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Money
  • Want
  • Nothing

• As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Want
  • Political
  • Kind

• Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Learn
  • Opportunities
  • Saying

• You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Work
  • Home
  • Child

• You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I'd rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Men
  • Women
  • Knowledge

• Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Energy

• Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Training

• If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Bad
  • You
  • Differences

• I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Spring

• Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Work

• Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to think of your ear or one of your eyes or elbow, also familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Taken
  • Eye

• You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.

  

  Michael Lee-Chin
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Value

• I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

  

  Jamie Bell