Jenson Button Quotes

In the car and in front of the camera I tend to be very calm but behind the scenes I can get fired up and passionate, I just don't see the need to shout my mouth off in public.

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• It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Father
  • Reality
  • Stars

• Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Survive
  • Dress
  • To Survive

• I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Years

• The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Research

• There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Path
  • Short

• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Looking
  • Make
  • Go

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Want

• Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • Long
  • Art
  • Me

• I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Art
  • Worry

• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Equality

• Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Game
  • Games
  • Selfish

• If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • Education
  • Duty
  • Bear

• I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • Find
  • Lazy
  • Theater

• Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Love
  • Book
  • Today

• I can stay up watching TV so late.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Up
  • I Can
  • Watching

• I haven't really rebelled. I just think my parents were right. I never disagreed with anything that I was brought up with, in terms of their values or politics.

  

  Ariel Levy
  • Up
  • Parents

• When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

  

  Allen Klein
  • People
  • Up

• That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Real
  • Character
  • Earth

• In the car and in front of the camera I tend to be very calm but behind the scenes I can get fired up and passionate, I just don't see the need to shout my mouth off in public.

  

  Jenson Button
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