Brian Blessed Quotes

When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.

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• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • People
  • Understand
  • Crisis

• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Progress
  • Taxes

• I have a great office.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Great
  • Office

• No one pays me to be nice.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Pays

• I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Drinking

• Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Helping
  • Doors
  • Opening

• We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • World
  • Change
  • Space

• When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Success
  • Fashion
  • Doing

• I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Work
  • Women
  • Strong

• American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • American
  • Historic

• Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Life
  • Better
  • Seed

• This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Life
  • Me
  • Difference

• Winners never quit and quitters never win.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Sports
  • Never
  • Win

• And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Dirty

• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Man
  • Thing

• The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Power
  • First
  • Contract

• At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Great
  • Future
  • Thought

• The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.

  

  David Mamet
  • Great
  • Struggle
  • Drama

• I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Man
  • Like
  • Star

• There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

  

  Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.

  

  Brian Blessed
  • Great
  • Teacher