Sam Mendes Quotes

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

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• Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
  • Know
  • Perfect

• I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • Character
  • Book

• It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • People
  • Kids
  • Think

• I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • School
  • Me
  • Wanted

• I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Me
  • Sure
  • Definitely

• When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • You
  • Movies
  • Got

• If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Action
  • President
  • Barack Obama

• I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Know
  • Two
  • Doodle

• I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Faith
  • Me
  • Always

• I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.

  

  Lana Wachowski
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  • Everything

• It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Money
  • Suicide
  • Tried

• It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Internet
  • Dangerous

• My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Money
  • She
  • Mom

• I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Believe
  • Job
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• It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
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• When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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  • Freedom

• If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Good
  • Work
  • Country

• I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Time
  • Men
  • Want

• When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Love
  • Film

• New York as an industry is the best city for real estate. You're in a very transparent market. If you need to liquidate, you make three phone calls and you could sell something, even in the worst market. It is also less forgiving; if you make a mistake you can lose money.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • Real
  • Money
  • City

• Sex is our deepest form of consciousness. It is utterly non-ideal, non-mental. It is pure blood-consciousness.... It is the consciousness of the night, when the soul is almost asleep.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Sex

• I want to keep my own guard, I want to keep my secrets, I want to keep my private life for me.

  

  Emmanuel Petit
  • Secret
  • Private Life

• Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Life
  • Men
  • Live

• You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

  

  Sam Mendes
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  • Movies