Paul Greengrass Quotes

Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.

Paul Greengrass

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• During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

  

  Questlove
  • Political
  • Me
  • Wise

• A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Free
  • Goals
  • Conflict

• The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Environment
  • Something

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Past
  • Amazing
  • Moving

• A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

  

  Hale White
  • Power
  • True
  • Knowledge

• People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Like
  • Need

• In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Past
  • Young
  • Now

• As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • World
  • Lost
  • Comedy

• It's my strong belief that when people love each other and are desirous of creating a committed relationship with each other that they should be allowed to marry, regardless of their sexual orientation.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Love
  • Belief

• A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • God
  • Opinion

• There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

  

  Larry Poons
  • People
  • Painting
  • Color

• Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • She

• Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.

  

  Imre Lakatos

• Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt;It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Health
  • Hurt

• I have often felt a bitter sorrow at the thought of the German people, which is so estimable in the individual and so wretched in the generality. A comparison of the German people with other peoples arouses a painful feeling, which I try to overcome in every possible way.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • Feeling
  • German

• I can't think of anything that's as exciting as I'm sure this mission will be, and actually being in space. But, we did some training as a crew together.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • Together
  • Space
  • Training

• Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Character

• I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.

  

  Jeffrey Bernard
  • People
  • Kids
  • Remember

• Appearance rules the world.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • World

• I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Believe
  • Men

• The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

  

  Harold Acton
  • Time
  • Best
  • Test

• I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.

  

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

• Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.

  

  Paul Greengrass
  • Character
  • Action
  • Reveals