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
  • Never
  • Sports
  • 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

• Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Time
  • Think
  • Wish

• I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Country
  • History
  • Lost

• Every thing to be true must become a religion.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Religion
  • Thing

• All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Stop

• 'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Fun

• I had very few friends. There was nobody I could trust. I left home when I was fifteen. I lived in Washington Square Park.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Trust

• 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