George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
-
I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.
-
When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
-
When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
-
I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.
-
In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
-
I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
-
I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
-
We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
-
What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
-
I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
-
I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.
-
I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'
-
I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.
-
It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.
-
It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
-
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
-
Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.
-
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.
-
To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.
-
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.
-
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
-
Incidentally, common sense is not so common and is the highest praise we give to a chain of logical conclusions.
-
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
