Jeffrey Skoll Quotes
When I started Participant, I felt that the movie business was ripe for a company that dealt with big issues in a systemic way. I was a little surprised that nobody had done it before. But to most people, entertainment is escapism.Jeffrey Skoll
Quotes to Explore
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I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
Orison Swett Marden -
I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
Taylor Caldwell -
Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
T. B. Joshua -
I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
Barry Jenkins -
I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
Orlando Bloom
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
Malcolm Lowry -
Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
Fat Joe -
I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
Kate Winslet -
I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
Samuel L. Jackson -
What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
Rachel Sklar -
Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
Patricia Heaton
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
Maceo Parker -
I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
Samuel Larsen -
People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
Dan Gilbert -
I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
Sam Worthington -
'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
Karan Johar -
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
Parker Posey -
I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
Veronica Roth -
When the Walkman was the craze in my generation, I was one of the first to have it.
Benigno Aquino III -
So often, I think, in these relationship comedies, they don't necessarily reflect the people that I know. They don't reflect myself.
David Denman -
When I started Participant, I felt that the movie business was ripe for a company that dealt with big issues in a systemic way. I was a little surprised that nobody had done it before. But to most people, entertainment is escapism.
Jeffrey Skoll