John Boorman Quotes

You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.

John Boorman

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• I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Said
  • Going
  • Phones

• I feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Deny

• I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • World
  • Relationships
  • Romance

• My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Strange

• I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Work
  • Job
  • Enough

• I aimed at the Archduke. I do not remember what I thought at that moment.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Remember
  • Thought
  • Moment

• It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • You
  • Matter

• One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Way
  • Looking
  • Speech

• Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.

  

  Hal Stratton
  • Today
  • Year
  • Back

• I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.

  

  Samantha Power
  • America
  • Mother
  • Me

• I went to a Catholic school, so of course we had to wear uniforms. My only form of expression was in shoes and the style of my hair.

  

  Camille Guaty
  • School
  • Style
  • Hair

• Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Small
  • Me
  • Small Things

• Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Religious
  • Woman
  • Sin

• A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Great
  • Me
  • Awesome

• To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Me
  • Evil
  • Darth Vader

• During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Women
  • America

• That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Happy
  • Lost
  • Content

• Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Up
  • Me
  • Never

• We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say - and to feel - 'Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.'

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Alone

• Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • Moral
  • Honor

• And I think the Donald Trump phenomenon is a real problem for the United States, making their democracy look kind of weird.

  

  Christopher Pyne
  • Democracy
  • Weird
  • United States

• I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

  

  Jason Statham

• I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Up

• You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.

  

  John Boorman