John Lasseter Quotes

Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.

John Lasseter

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• The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Always
  • Better
  • Buildings

• Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Many
  • Democrats
  • Worldview

• The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • New
  • New York
  • Africa

• My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Mother
  • Singing
  • Brother

• I really am a cockeyed optimist.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Really
  • Optimist
  • Am

• I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • Day
  • Hurt
  • Horse

• Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Home
  • You
  • Hat

• I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, but that's the way I am. But I love people. And when I'm on the stage, I can embrace people and still feel safe.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • People
  • Feel
  • Ways

• I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Writing
  • High

• I am a five-foot six-inch, dark, ordinary-looking man. People didn't imagine that I would make it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Man
  • Dark

• Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Work
  • Want
  • Fast

• Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.

  

  Basil Rathbone
  • Work
  • Rate
  • Exchange

• I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.

  

  Acker Bilk
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Beautiful
  • Simple
  • Personality

• Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Small
  • Friendship

• What I like about the EMAs is that you will never know what happens.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • You
  • Know
  • Will

• He wrote love stories, a thing I have always kept free from, holding the belief that the well-known and popular sentiment is not properly matter for publication, but something to be privately handled by the alienist and the florist.

  

  O. Henry
  • Free
  • Popular

• I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Relationship
  • Evidence
  • IRS

• I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Create
  • Works
  • Limitations

• I made myself a little boatAnd launched it on the sea ;And into the wide world went forthTo see what there might be.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • World
  • Sea

• The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.

  

  Mark Zandi
  • Mistake
  • Recovery

• In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

  

  John Boyd Orr
  • World
  • Earth

• Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.

  

  John Lasseter