Bruce Beresford Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
No decent career was ever founded on a public.
-
I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
-
One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
-
I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.
-
One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
-
But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
-
It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
-
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
-
In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.
-
We got guys who can score. Everybody knows guys can score.
-
I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.
-
It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.
-
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
-
Something theoretical in the past may become evident and established in the present or in the future. It is a self-evident fact that creation has an innate tendency towards perfection, and it is through this that creation is bound to the law of development or gradual perfection.
-
I used to play football with a load of lads, and I would be like a secret agent going out with a hat on so they wouldn't see my hair in a bun.
-
Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
-
I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
-
Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
-
There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
-
I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.
-
I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.
-
It's so damn hard to bloom… to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without… love.
-
I've been pretty sick for quite a while. Between the hideous diet, the radiation and the effects of being off my medication, I've been in a bad way.
-
I didn't get upset because I wasn't nominated, but I was a little surprised.
