Brian De Palma Quotes

The camera lies all the time -- lies 24 times/second.

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• I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Funny

• As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Tell

• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • God
  • Know
  • Ever

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Good
  • Communication
  • Obscure

• 'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Hurt

• The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • History
  • Man
  • Present

• For economist the real world is often a special case.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
  • World
  • Real
  • Special

• Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Up
  • Important
  • Why

• I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Always

• 'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Think
  • Easy
  • Brave

• Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don't want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Remember
  • Memories

• What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Funny
  • Him

• It's been a dream of mine to run my own summer camp. I went to one as a kid, and I put on productions, and got lots of confidence.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Dream
  • Confidence
  • Summer

• I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • Job
  • Movie

• To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Enemy

• Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Army

• I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

  

  Jennifer Weiner
  • Writing
  • College
  • English

• We may be smaller, we may be small in number, we may have a lot less money, but there are a growing number of people who are sick and tired of the campaigns to destroy decent people, such as George Bush, Sarah Palin, Clarence Thomas, Paula Jones, Linda Tripp, Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • People
  • Money
  • May

• I haven't spoken to Oprah herself. She had so much going on, since her network show was wrapping up at the time we were shooting. I can't fault her for that.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Hell

• I put it forth as a challenge to the industry to continue thinking of actors, regardless of sexuality, with open eyes and open hearts that they can play any role.

  

  Dan Amboyer
  • Thinking
  • Eyes
  • Challenge

• The camera lies all the time -- lies 24 times/second.

  

  Brian De Palma
  • Time
  • Lies
  • Camera