John Woo Quotes

When I was young, I loved movies so much I wanted to make one.

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• I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Fear
  • Intimacy
  • Thrive

• Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play rock shows and have tons of tattoos, they will still go to church on Sunday and do their best to live that kind of a life.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Always
  • Eye
  • Period

• No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Business
  • Pretty

• I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • Family
  • High

• I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Thought

• So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Up
  • Always
  • Childhood

• Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

  

  Om Puri
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Funny

• I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Best

• Let the Palestinians run their affairs: create a situation in which no Israeli soldier will have to maintain public order, whether in Gaza or the West Bank. Let's give it to the Palestinians, as long as there is security for us. No more occupying another people.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Long
  • Situation

• The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Children
  • Progress

• An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • May

• A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music.

  

  Harold Lloyd Jenkins
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• I think it's never too late to learn - or it's a lesson that's good to continue learning - that you need to treat everyone on a set with respect.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Learning

• I want to make a difference.

  

  Jared Polis

• My name is Jennifer, and when I first went to school, my kindergarten teacher called me Jenny, and from then on, I was Jenny.

  

  Jenny Han
  • School
  • Teacher

• There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Passion

• I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see that they have moments of grace and dignity that everybody has.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • People
  • Time
  • Nature

• The White House has a secular, humanistic agenda.

  

  John Fleming
  • House

• The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually.

  

  Bono U2
  • Know
  • Associate
  • Ingratiate

• I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This developed over the years. In my heart, I don't see myself as a criminal.

  

  Wolfgang Beltracchi
  • Heart
  • Talent
  • Decided

• When I was young, I loved movies so much I wanted to make one.

  

  John Woo