Jonny Lee Miller Quotes

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

Jonny Lee Miller

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• The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Truth
  • Happy

• I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Love
  • Science
  • Literature

• I remember starting out and covering songs.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Remember
  • Songs
  • Starting

• I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Small
  • Team
  • Basketball

• I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Political
  • Party
  • Politics

• I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

  

  Imelda May
  • Good
  • Money
  • Dad

• I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Winning

• Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Learning
  • Weird
  • Difficult

• Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • People
  • Me
  • Attention

• My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Work
  • Home
  • Happy

• It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • May
  • Inspire
  • Collaboration

• France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • People
  • Love
  • Door

• Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Men
  • Business

• The only art I have is a Polaroid from Peter Beard from his book. I shot with him four years ago, and he did a special Polaroid for me, so I consider it a piece of art.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Art
  • Book
  • Me

• After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • President
  • Reflection
  • Decisions

• For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Dream

• You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Matter

• I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Strong
  • Choices
  • Cancer

• If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Nature
  • Desire
  • Humanity

• I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Independent

• The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

  

  Clement Clarke Moore
  • Hopes
  • Chimney
  • St. Nicholas

• Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, is helping children connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Children
  • Helping
  • Roles

• The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

  

  Jonny Lee Miller
  • Actors
  • Roles
  • Surprise