Dan Stevens Quotes
It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn't want to let it go.
Quotes to Explore
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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I was an expert horseman.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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I dress for men.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
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I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
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You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.
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There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.
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This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
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It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn't want to let it go.
