Max Minghella Quotes

I always thought I'd make films. I didn't think I'd be in them.

Max Minghella

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• Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • Taken
  • Serious

• Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Imagination

• So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Long
  • Acting
  • Mistakes

• In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• When I'm directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what's in my mind as to the tone and feel of things. I try to create a place where you feel that anything's possible.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Mind
  • Environment
  • Try

• What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it.

  

  Jack Lord
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Personality

• I've always wanted to be on an original cast recording. I grew up listening to them, and now to know that my voice is heard on three or four of them is just surreal. I never thought I would be that person.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Thought

• Advertising is legalized lying.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Lying
  • Advertising
  • Legal

• Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Pretty

• Another Visitor: How did you manage, Monsieur Degas, when you painted that plein air called 'Le Plage', the one Monsieur Rouart has? Degas: It was quite simple. I spread my flannel vest on the floor of the studio, and had the model sit on it. You see, the air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Simple
  • Air
  • Picture

• The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Great
  • May

• I don't fear death. But I don't like being dangled out there like a piece of meat on a fishing rod to it either. If I'm going to die, take me out now. Don't let me suffer. That's not exactly the way I wanted to go. I don't want to be in limbo, I don't want to know that I might die. The mights don't work with me. I'm too literal.

  

  Anastacia
  • Work
  • Death
  • Fear

• Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Use
  • Theory
  • Observed

• It seems likely that Jesus, being a scholarly young man, learned some Hebrew, but that's conjecture. It's more likely that Jesus spoke some Greek, as this language dominated the region after the conquests of Alexander the Great in the fourth century.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Great
  • Jesus
  • Greek

• Brick and mortar stores will ultimately mark down between 50 to 60% of its merchandise because they don't know who's walking in the door on any day, so they lose control.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Control
  • Door
  • Walking

• It's about not having doubt in your mind and staying focused and not having any preconceived notion about failure. It's just looking forward and staying positive.

  

  Freya Tingley
  • Mind
  • Positive
  • Failure

• People believed what I said was what I believed.

  

  Bob Ehrlich
  • People

• Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.

  

  David Guetta
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Together
  • Success
  • Failure

• My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • Mom
  • Shoes

• The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • True
  • Beauty
  • Disappointment

• The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.

  

  Euripides
  • Good
  • Gifts
  • Bad Men

• It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Ocean

• I always thought I'd make films. I didn't think I'd be in them.

  

  Max Minghella