John Hurt Quotes

Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.

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• I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Crazy
  • More

• People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • People
  • Girl
  • Myself

• I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Very
  • Matters
  • Pass

• I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • More
  • Three
  • Days

• I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Know
  • Never
  • Gun

• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• It used to upset me - now it makes me sad - to see people use patriotism and our troops as a pawn in their political argument. Because I know personally, growing up in a military family, the sacrifice that is made on a daily basis.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Attention
  • Animal
  • Finesse

• It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Military
  • Relate

• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Picture
  • Company
  • Wait

• What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future but it's always based on what we have. Then as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas. You know?

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Future
  • Science

• Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Choices
  • Human
  • Perspective

• Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Done
  • Think
  • Best

• I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Man
  • First
  • Survive

• I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Different
  • Career
  • Try

• Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Way
  • Dance
  • Songs

• The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Moving
  • Paris
  • Italy

• I think there was, and there is, a real Commonwealth culture. It's different. America doesn't really feel to be a part of that.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Different
  • Real
  • America

• I used to live in Pillgwenlly, and there was this old Italian pizzeria that used to be there with a really amazing character who ran it.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Live
  • Character
  • Amazing

• You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Together
  • Want

• One thing I don't understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that's terrible and boring.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Past
  • Freedom

• Yeah, I've worked with a couple of female directors, now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Amazing

• Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.

  

  John Hurt
  • Amazing