Rutger Hauer Quotes

"Good guy" or "bad guy", hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

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• When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Words

• Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Environment
  • Hollywood
  • Got

• I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Kid
  • Dancing
  • Australia

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Hip Hop
  • Chris
  • Martin

• All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Feeling
  • Unique
  • Perception

• Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mean
  • Nose
  • Solar

• Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Man
  • Respect

• There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down to the Bone,' you have the opportunity to be of service.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Opportunity
  • Service
  • Acting

• We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Congress
  • Jewish
  • Some

• I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Career
  • Play
  • Characters

• My philosophy is 'learn while you live.' 'LazyTown' is about balance. I'm not there yet.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Live
  • Balance
  • Philosophy

• I have to represent. I feel proud to have a culture that's different... and proud to be a Latina. We're not all categorized as one type of person... there's people from everywhere doing different things who have different types of cultures. Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • People
  • Different
  • Strong

• We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Never
  • Elegance
  • Snobbery

• κόσμον μὲν ἀνδρὸς οὔτιν᾽ ἂν τρέσαιμ᾽ ἐγώ,οὐδ᾽ ἑλκοποιὰ γίγνεται τὰ σήματαλόφοι δὲ κώδων τ᾽ οὐ δάκνουσ᾽ ἄνευ δορός.

  

  Aeschylus

• A sledgehammer breaks glass but forges steel.

  

  Leon Trotsky

• Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

  

  The Weeknd

• I didn't really like the '80s, to be honest with you. There was some good music that came out, but it went a bit disco for me.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Good
  • Music

• It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.

  

  Alfred Marshall
  • Character

• I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn't even run past a little baby.

  

  Jonah Lomu
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • People

• Then, as if that's not enough, then they declare that my wife is Jewish or Serbian. Luckily for me, she never was either, although many wives are. And so on and so forth spreading lies.

  

  Franjo Tudjman
  • She
  • Wife
  • Lies

• "Good guy" or "bad guy", hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

  

  Rutger Hauer
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Hero