Jonathan Miller Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There are two kinds of ham: raw and cooked. Raw ham is cured with salt and/or smoke over time; cooked ham is boiled. Every culture that makes ham has its own unique and various methods.
-
I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
-
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
-
So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
-
I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.
-
The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
-
You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
-
I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
-
When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
-
It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
-
I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.
-
I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
-
Liam Smith was a resilient fighter. He was tough, has a lot of heart. He thinks before he attacks.
-
I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
-
I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
-
My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
-
I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
-
I'm probably only going to make 10 movies, so I'm already planning on what I'm going to do after that. That's why I'm counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point. What I want to do, basically, is I want to write novels, and I want to write theatre, and I want to direct theatre.
-
It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary marrow of my bones.
-
I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.
-
Today the Republican Party attracts neither the farmer nor the industrial worker. Why not? To represent the people one must know them. Lincoln did. The Republican Party leadership does not. The greatest praise I can give Lincoln on this his anniversary is to say he would be ashamed of his party's leadership today.
-
Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.
-
Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
