Matthew Vaughn Quotes

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

Matthew Vaughn

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• I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Beginning
  • Write
  • Down

• Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Family
  • Father
  • Death

• Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • People
  • Character
  • Strong

• It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.

  

  Kaskade
  • House
  • Interesting
  • Chicago

• There is no method but to be very intelligent.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Intelligent
  • Very
  • Intelligence

• The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • World
  • Different
  • Me

• I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Career
  • Actor
  • Far

• I hope we can get to a point where women players are being paid properly all around the world so the only thing they have to worry about is playing football and playing football alone.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Women
  • Hope

• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Will
  • Knife
  • Sharpening

• My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • World
  • Reading
  • Passion

• Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • May
  • True

• The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • World
  • Nature
  • Changes

• Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Like
  • Two

• Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Childhood

• Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Stand
  • Within
  • Contrast

• So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God

• Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Long
  • Way
  • Annoying

• There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • God
  • Done

• Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Art
  • Bad

• I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

  

  Kim Smith
  • People

• Another eminent psychologist, Dr. Aaron Antonovsky, an Israeli medical sociologist, has also attempted to pin down the key psychological traits that allowed some to withstand extreme stress while others did not. He focused on Holocaust survivors and narrowed the search down to three traits that together add to having a sense of coherence: comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness. So “hardy” people have a belief that their situation has inherent meaning that they can commit themselves to, that they can manage their life and that their situation is understandable—that it is basically comprehensible, even if it seems chaotic and out of control.

  

  Mark Williams
  • People
  • Life
  • Together

• It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

  

  Matthew Vaughn