Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Quotes

You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

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• I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Up
  • Age
  • Acting

• You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Political
  • Respect
  • Stop

• I never thought I was a very good manager.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Manager

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very much, but at no point, do I consider myself a Nawab.

  

  Saif Ali Khan
  • Time
  • Love
  • Myself

• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Mind
  • Logic
  • Insanity

• I'm terribly, horribly shy.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Shy
  • Terribly
  • Horribly

• Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.

  

  A. James Clark
  • English
  • Rome
  • Letter

• Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Simple

• Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Success
  • Road
  • Failure

• I'm not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It's me, and it's important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn't have a role model growing up.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Important
  • Help

• As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'

  

  Rafe Spall
  • God
  • Me
  • Cool

• I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Why
  • Want
  • Hate

• I'm a cliche.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Cliche

• Globalisation has powered economic growth in developing countries such as China. Global logistics, low domestic production costs, and strong consumer demand have let the country develop strong export-based manufacturing, making the country the workshop of the world.

  

  Ma Jun
  • World
  • Country
  • Strong

• The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.

  

  Jodi Kantor
  • People
  • Profound

• It's like freedom of speech - they can't tell you not to do it. When no one will put you on at a club or venue, you can go to the street, just start singing, and get a lot of good feedback from people as they walk by. I got really good at lip reading and seeing if a song is working. It was a good way to start.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Good
  • Song

• The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'

  

  Bob Barr
  • American
  • Moral

• I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.

  

  Laurieann Gibson
  • Eyes

• Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in years. If you hanker after worldly fame and practise not the Way, your labors are wrongfully applied and your energy is wasted. It is like unto burning an incense stick. However much its pleasing odor be admired, the fire that consumes is steadily burning up the stick.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Energy
  • Fame
  • Desires

• When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly.

  

  Lewis Gordon Pugh
  • People
  • World
  • Earth

• But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart.

  

  Lee Greenwood
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Kindness
  • Boost
  • Immune System

• You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman