Matthew Vaughn Quotes

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

Matthew Vaughn

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• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Style
  • Forget
  • Heritage

• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Success
  • Me
  • Eating

• Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Good
  • Happiness
  • Flower

• You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Play
  • Ahead

• One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.

  

  Eden Riegel
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Mother

• Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Acting
  • Boring

• When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Work
  • Best
  • Cool

• When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.

  

  Becky G
  • God
  • Money
  • Kids

• Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Education

• That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Most
  • Australia
  • Countryside

• I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Writing
  • Model
  • Songs

• There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Thought
  • Nothing
  • Absence

• I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Performer

• When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Important
  • Artist

• Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
  • Career
  • Proud

• We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Choices
  • Need
  • Face

• I became allergic to virtually all fruits and vegetables, and my weight tumbled. I am 5ft. 10in. but dropped to just 8 st. 7lbs.

  

  Jameela Jamil

• I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and that's how I make a living - and from acting - but I never stopped playing and producing and recording music.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Done
  • Funny

• It was one of those dreams that invade the space between seconds, proving sleep has its own physics- where time shrinks and swells, lifetimes unspool in a blink, and cities burn to ash in a mere flutter of lashes.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Space

• One of my best friends growing up was Vietnamese, and he and his mom would teach me how to say certain things so I could impress my nail girls. Then the nail girls would teach me how to count to 100 and basic things like 'Thank you' and 'You're welcome.' It's funny, because any accent that I do now always turns into Vietnamese.

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• The world of digital media is being transformed. A bunch of new businesses can be reinvented, thanks to social graphs, the mobile internet, and the new shopping habits of the young. Those are going to create a whole generation of cool new companies.

  

  Bing Gordon
  • World
  • Cool
  • Thanks

• I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

  

  Matthew Vaughn
  • Funny
  • Cool
  • Violence