Frank Langella Quotes

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

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• It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • You
  • Eyes
  • Discipline

• Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Children
  • Military

• My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Idea

• I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • Different
  • Home

• If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Event
  • Foreign Policy

• Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • True
  • Consistent
  • Simply

• As is always the way with pancakes, the first hotcake to come out of the pan will probably be a bit misshapen. Just scoff it, and carry on with the rest.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Rest
  • First

• The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Matter

• The history of Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be understood without its underlying emotional meanders. The emotional frameworks of the loss of Palestine for the Arab-Islamic world touched deep scars that go back to the Crusades, symbolizing a proof of Arab-Islamic decay, political impotence, and perceived (British/French) betrayal and antagonism.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • World
  • History
  • Political

• If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Up
  • Great
  • Think

• If you've been driving for a little while and nothing's happened to you yet - and you've been texting and driving - you think, 'Oh nothing's going to happen.' But all it takes is an accident happening with one of your friends or God forbid, something happening to you, to really give you a wake-up call.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • God
  • Friends

• To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Different
  • Success
  • Measure

• Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Time
  • American
  • Trust

• It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Reason
  • Intuition

• With the... symbolic memory we spell out the future-not one but many futures, which we weigh one against another.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Future

• We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

  

  Carl Jung
  • God
  • Age

• 'You don’t seem the superstitious type.''I’m not,' Ben said. 'I’m careful. There’s a difference.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss

• Even when I was No. 1 in the world, I was taking it one match at a time. I never was a player to look too far ahead, the way draws can pan out.

  

  Lleyton Hewitt
  • Time
  • World
  • Player

• There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Point

• In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Future
  • Violence

• People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.

  

  Matthew Bourne
  • People
  • Imagination
  • Dance

• Ignore the negativity in your life. Right now I'm taking bullets for other people and sometimes in life that's where courage comes from.

  

  Cady Groves
  • People
  • Life
  • Courage

• Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

  

  Frank Langella