Maximilian Schell Quotes

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

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• I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • High
  • Want

• You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Art

• Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Cool
  • Voice
  • Bold

• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Book
  • Creativity

• Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Song
  • Thought
  • Guitar

• I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Political
  • Kind

• I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Woman

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Important
  • Success
  • Past

• I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• I don't read books.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Books
  • Read

• When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • People
  • New York
  • Subway

• I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Work
  • Excited
  • Ridley Scott

• I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Life
  • Good
  • Goal

• The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Land
  • Village
  • Ruthless

• As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Find
  • Come
  • Predict

• Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Character
  • Success
  • Said

• I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Path

• I enjoy yoga a lot, not even for the workout.

  

  Jessica Szohr
  • Yoga
  • Workout

• Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Up
  • Food

• I pray you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald. I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words. If I've offended you by this rather mild account of Buchenwald, I'm not in the least sorry.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Believe
  • Words
  • Sorry

• I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life.

  

  Francois Gautier
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

  

  Maximilian Schell
  • Life