Robert Wise Quotes

The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.

Robert Wise

• Because
• Favorite
• Standpoint
• Pebbles

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mother

• I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • People
  • School
  • High

• I aspire only to silence.

  

  Felix Feneon
  • Silence
  • Only
  • Aspire

• As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Struggle
  • Battle

• I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Great
  • Different
  • Car

• I'm like a sight gag.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Like
  • Sight
  • Gag

• No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Hope

• Something funny certainly happens when palladium and platinum come into contact with hydrogen gas; it's one of the great mysteries still waiting to be solved on the periodic table. But it's quite a leap from 'something funny' to cold fusion.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Waiting

• I'm very lazy when it comes to making the original sound. I don't go through amplifiers and different compressors and signal parts. I just grab something, whether its an old guitar or a children's toy that happens to be lying around, and record it straight into the computer.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Different
  • Children
  • Sound

• With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Dream

• I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

  

  Banksy
  • Good
  • Style
  • Painting

• Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.

  

  Banks
  • You
  • Enough
  • Brave

• Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Today
  • Sex

• A revolution is not a bed of roses.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Revolution
  • Bed
  • Roses

• When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • World
  • Different
  • Art

• If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind – I've always loved it.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Time
  • Good
  • Dad

• I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Warrior
  • Revolutionary

• Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Religion
  • Morality
  • Koran

• I think actors have a huge responsibility because of the vastness of their outreach. I am a big believer of the good that film, television, and theater can do, and I want to be a part of that. Throughout my career, I want to keep telling amazing stories and inspiring people.

  

  Roberto Aguire
  • Responsibility
  • Because
  • Believer

• I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • People
  • Trying
  • Find

• Haters are sometimes people who can't understand why everybody loves you.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Understand
  • Loves
  • Haters

• Sometimes, a scene goes on too long and, with this being a suspense story and murder mystery that you're trying to discover through her heightened paranoia, you don't want scenes that take you on a tangent. Sometimes, you love those scenes, but you know that it's better not to be in the overall film. So, I'm not sad that they're not in the main movie, but I do think it's fun for people to get to watch them, if they want to.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Sometimes

• The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.

  

  Robert Wise
  • Because
  • Favorite
  • Standpoint