Jason Statham Quotes

It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.

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• Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Doing

• You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Care
  • Honor
  • Contempt

• I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Desire
  • Look
  • Mystery

• If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Me

• When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Think
  • Light
  • Wise

• By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Everyone

• History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • History
  • Never
  • Go

• Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Women
  • Society
  • Best

• London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • London
  • Most

• It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Know
  • Problem
  • Yes

• I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Think
  • Years
  • Around

• I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Talk
  • Fellow
  • Forbidden

• Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Value
  • Living

• While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Book

• I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• I'm extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It's a special moment in my career.

  

  Ma Long
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Win

• Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Fashion
  • Still
  • Expert

• I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Think
  • Stock
  • Retirement

• You know, I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Tough

• I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it.

  

  Dylan O'Brien
  • Good
  • Work
  • Interesting

• If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice. I could have done other kinds of songs that got me in the radio or Top 10, but I wouldn't feel proud of the work. I come up short when I create music I don't like, and fans can tell too. The goal isn't to get into it to be famous; the goal is to perfect your craft and create your own sound.

  

  Domenica Costa
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Perfect

• How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it?

  

  William Logan
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Stuff

• For example, I came to my exams very well prepared, but if the professor were suddenly to ask me, “Do you know from what works I derive the authority on the basis of which I teach this subject in this university?” I wouldn’t know what to answer. But the others knew. So I moved among them fearful of saying and doing the wrong things.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Teach
  • Authority
  • University

• It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.

  

  Jason Statham