Brie Larson (Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers) Quotes

As much as I love acting, I just want to be a healthy person.

Brie Larson

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• Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Society

• I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Got
  • VIolin
  • Grade

• My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Great
  • Success
  • Trapped

• My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • World
  • Surprise

• It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Good
  • Great
  • Me

• The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • King
  • White

• I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • People
  • Good
  • Always

• I do not understand why we are not raised to celebrate our bodies as children. Why we are told to be shy or awkward or self-conscious.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Children
  • Why
  • Celebrate

• I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • School
  • Parents
  • Better

• Be the chief but never the lord.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Never
  • Leadership
  • Lord

• We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Real

• A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People
  • Hope
  • Die

• You see I've always been a fighter

  

  Jon Bon Jovi

• No one has ever accused me of being ambitious.

  

  Burt Shavitz

• I want to play against the best, and that's what I'm doing, just going out there and being focused, just competing every possession.

  

  Kawhi Leonard

• As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

  

  Jerome Isaac Friedman
  • School
  • Art
  • High

• I think in order to accomplish anything in life, you have to visualize yourself there - accepting the award, hearing your song on the radio, whatever it is - or you lose the willpower and the drive.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Life
  • Song

• To start your working life after you've graduated from school and university, it takes you a long time to get started in the real world. Today, kids are not out into the workforce until 27 or 30 years of age. By the time I was 30, I had six kids and 60 trucks.

  

  Lindsay Fox
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • School
  • Dad
  • Fool

• Since I was a kid, baking has been part of my life.

  

  Paul Hollywood
  • Life
  • Part
  • Baking

• When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Home
  • Day
  • Baby

• I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Yourself
  • Creativity
  • Scary

• I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.

  

  Jeff Weiner

• As much as I love acting, I just want to be a healthy person.

  

  Brie Larson