George Chakiris Quotes

If you buy a lottery ticket, you really don't expect to win. However, if you do win, it's a different story. The same is true about getting an Oscar. Of course I knew I was nominated, but I never expected my name to be called. When it was, I'm still at a loss to describe the feelings that I experienced.

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• Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Love
  • Freedom
  • For Her

• Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Democracy
  • Same
  • Down

• There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Listening
  • Period
  • Beauty

• The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • World
  • Real
  • Dreams

• It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Myself

• A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Women
  • Friends

• I believe that I'm an actor to this day because of 'Star Wars.' I saw 'Star Wars' as a child, and I was completely enamored by it.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Star

• I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Different
  • Real
  • Way

• The fastest way to improve your relationships is to make others feel important in every way possible.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Important
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• But now I know that there is no killing A thing like Love, for it laughs at Death. There is no hushing, there is no stilling That which is part of your life and breath. You may bury it deep, and leave behind you The land, the people that knew your slain; It will push the sods from its grave, and find you On wastes of water or desert plain.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• Faith is the solid, unshakable confidence in God which is built upon assurance that He is faithful to His promises.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Faith
  • Confidence

• For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Proceed

• Brothers are so unpleasant.

  

  George Eliot
  • Brothers
  • Unpleasant

• If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Expect

• And I'm always surprised at who's there when you fail, ... It's usually not the people you expect to be there. It's easy to have friends when you're winning. And Jerry Maguire was kind of about that. This was about that, but it's like success and failure get trumped by an even bigger issue, which is, 'Are you going to be truly alive, and do you even know what that is?'

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Friends
  • Success

• I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Way
  • Find
  • Volume

• Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Real
  • Film
  • Acting

• Maybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the distance across, and the way over or around it, whichever you chose in the end.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Distance
  • Grief
  • Depth

• If you buy a lottery ticket, you really don't expect to win. However, if you do win, it's a different story. The same is true about getting an Oscar. Of course I knew I was nominated, but I never expected my name to be called. When it was, I'm still at a loss to describe the feelings that I experienced.

  

  George Chakiris
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  • Oscar
  • Lottery ticket