Joe Cole Quotes

Accents influence a performance. If you look at Stanislavski, he says work from the in to the out, and I probably overall work the other way. I find an accent and a mood, and that influences the character massively.

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• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Three

• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Done
  • Meetings

• It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Nature
  • Right
  • Been

• Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Behavior

• When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Work
  • Understand

• Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Quantity

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

  

  P. D. James
  • Time
  • God
  • Write

• I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Different
  • Think
  • Know

• There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Fear
  • Quality
  • Better

• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Work
  • May
  • Society

• When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • You
  • Film
  • Integrity

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Day

• I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Jazz

• Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Too Much

• A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.

  

  Ted Allen
  • City
  • Friend
  • Winning

• I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Good
  • Work
  • Money

• I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Thought
  • See
  • Now

• I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy, trip over myself, and laugh and be goofy. I just feel like all I do is cry, sob, and fight zombies and the bad guys.

  

  Laurie Holden
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Comedy

• I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
  • Character
  • Career

• Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to work equally as hard because people pay a lot of money for tickets. They demand the best that we have.

  

  Patti LuPone
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• Accents influence a performance. If you look at Stanislavski, he says work from the in to the out, and I probably overall work the other way. I find an accent and a mood, and that influences the character massively.

  

  Joe Cole
  • Work
  • Character
  • Mood