Bruce Beresford Quotes

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.

Bruce Beresford

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• I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'

  

  Manny Coto
  • Doctor
  • Wait
  • Line

• 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

• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Wrong
  • Stand
  • Him

• A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Said
  • Rebel

• Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Long
  • Night
  • Relationship

• If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Star
  • Never
  • Child

• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Death
  • Enemies
  • Our

• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Right
  • Brands
  • Threatening

• Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Single
  • Day

• Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Women
  • Reality
  • Sharing

• I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.

  

  Wale
  • Person
  • Passionate
  • Fault

• Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Up
  • Great
  • Control

• The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Interesting
  • Movies
  • Walk

• My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Voice
  • Appreciation
  • Express

• The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Work
  • First
  • Last

• The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • May
  • Today
  • Peace

• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Why
  • Always

• I'm not the fastest player, but you can't really play up on me because my handles are good enough where I can get around you. But you can't play off of me, because I can shoot. And if smaller guys try to defend me, I'll back them down. I'm a good post player.

  

  Chauncey Billups
  • Up
  • Good
  • Player

• When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Victory

• I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Up
  • Time
  • Ideas

• In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.

  

  Bruce Beresford
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