Melanie Laurent Quotes

I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?'

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• I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Think
  • Me
  • College

• Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Country
  • Me
  • Chance

• If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Cricket

• I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • She
  • Age
  • Strong

• You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Death
  • Man
  • Hero

• A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Love
  • Inspired
  • Stories

• There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Quality
  • Easy

• It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • World
  • Small
  • Action

• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Just
  • Union
  • Square

• The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Respect
  • Trust
  • Appreciation

• As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Me
  • Proud

• I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Today
  • Reading
  • Brown

• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Work
  • Way
  • I Can

• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Like
  • Evening
  • Dressing

• Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Feel

• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Learning
  • Democracy

• It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• When I'm studying English I love to watch 'Friends' or 'Nikita.'

  

  Liu Wen
  • Friends
  • English

• I have no problem with Brock Lesnar being a part-timer, because he's earned that spot. He's a multiple time champion in WWE, a former UFC Champion, NCAA amateur wrestling champion, so his accolades speak for themselves.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Time
  • Champion
  • Wrestling

• 'Boast not my fall (he cried), insulting foe! Thou by some other shalt be laid as low; Nor think to die dejects my lofty mind; All that I dread is leaving you behind! Rather than so, ah let me still survive, And burn in Cupid's flames - but burn alive.'

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Mind
  • Die
  • Fall

• Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • World
  • Different
  • Done

• I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?'

  

  Melanie Laurent
  • Why