Jim Sturgess Quotes

It was when '21' came out. I was in Los Angeles and my face was everywhere: on buses, on posters, on the side of buildings. I didn't feel that blown away by it. I was still hungry to prove myself. I realised that quite quickly, that I had to find something that challenged me from an acting point of view.

Jim Sturgess

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• When I walk into a Best Buy, I now see, right from the front door, a giant Apple logo. I see a giant Samsung logo. I see a giant Microsoft Windows logo. And those are stores within a store.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Best
  • Door
  • Walk

• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • World
  • Man
  • Me

• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Books
  • Shame

• David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Done
  • Awesome
  • Interview

• The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • May
  • Desire
  • Eyes

• I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • House
  • Mess
  • Clean

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Peace
  • Yourself

• Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Happiness

• We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Thought
  • Racial
  • Ethnic

• Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Boxing
  • Big
  • Then

• I had always wanted to lend my voice to a character. I did a voice for this video game, called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Game

• The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love with someone difficult? The ones I'd fall in love with are the ones I'd definitely keep out of a book.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Book
  • Want
  • Best

• I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'

  

  Naya Rivera
  • American
  • Race
  • German

• The Euro-bureaucrats are destroying every bit of national identity and individuality.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Identity
  • Individuality

• When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Stop

• For the good producer, raising capital is about the last thing to worry about. If you're good, the money comes very easily.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Good
  • Money
  • Worry

• Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

  

  Jay Griffiths
  • Life
  • Animal
  • Lit

• He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

  

  Chuck Berry

• There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.

  

  Maurice Flanagan
  • People
  • Work
  • Walking

• I kind of knew inside that I wanted to try comedy, but it was a mystery. How do you start? So when I hit 30 and I had done everything I wanted to do in journalism, so I went to a comedy class. I figured I'd learn how to do five minutes and see how it feels.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Done
  • Comedy

• It was when '21' came out. I was in Los Angeles and my face was everywhere: on buses, on posters, on the side of buildings. I didn't feel that blown away by it. I was still hungry to prove myself. I realised that quite quickly, that I had to find something that challenged me from an acting point of view.

  

  Jim Sturgess