Jonny Lee Miller Quotes

I think Danny Boyle's got it in his head that we all still look too young (to do a 'Trainspotting' sequel.) But, I mean, I don't look like anyone I play, anyways, so I don't really know where that comes from. Because, you know, you change yourself for the roles. I'm actually not Scottish, either!

Jonny Lee Miller

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• My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • Professional
  • Nothing

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Beatles

• Being in love is the best thing in my life.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Love
  • Best

• You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Respect

• I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Work
  • Luck
  • Crush

• What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • World
  • Future

• However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.

  

  Mary Beard
  • May

• I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

  

  Conor McPherson
  • Why

• If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff

• I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • School
  • Business
  • Education

• My true dream, ever since I was a kid, was to play professional baseball. It's something that I worked my whole life for. But that didn't work out with the knee surgeries and whatnot.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Life
  • Work
  • True

• It's hard when something's bigged up because you want people to watch it, so you have to promote it. It'd be great if it was the old-fashioned days when there was no press, and you just switched on and thought, 'Oh, God, what's going on?'

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Opportunity
  • Wish

• You have to grow! You grow as a person, and then you will grow in business.

  

  Andrew Cherng
  • Business

• I'm not a cook. I like to watch the Food Network, but I don't like to cook.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Food

• I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.

  

  Claire Scovell LaZebnik
  • Science
  • Hate

• Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Government
  • Nervous
  • Lightning

• The power of change that mobile technology unleashes is extraordinary.

  

  Borje Ekholm
  • Power
  • Technology

• So food is important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being. The more chemicals that are in our food and the more outside of the way it is intended by nature, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Important
  • Nature
  • Food

• Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Ocean
  • Constitution
  • Establishment

• I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Men
  • Guy
  • Projects

• I think Danny Boyle's got it in his head that we all still look too young (to do a 'Trainspotting' sequel.) But, I mean, I don't look like anyone I play, anyways, so I don't really know where that comes from. Because, you know, you change yourself for the roles. I'm actually not Scottish, either!

  

  Jonny Lee Miller
  • Thinking
  • Play
  • Mean