Roland Emmerich Quotes

There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.

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• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• I got lost but look what I found.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Lost
  • Look
  • Found

• If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Think
  • Look
  • Choice

• A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • America
  • Talking
  • Internal

• If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • You
  • Die
  • Find

• I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Age
  • Amazing
  • Player

• There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • People
  • Country
  • Know

• We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Want
  • City
  • Feet

• The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • World
  • Tiger
  • Magnificent

• I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Good
  • Music
  • Live

• I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Guy
  • Risk
  • Commitment

• Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Star
  • Look
  • Blockbuster

• Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Heart
  • Shoes
  • Pink

• The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity affecting the whole body of science, known, it is true, to men of insight, but not generally admitted.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Men
  • True
  • Science

• When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after 'the little redhead girl'.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • Happy
  • Dream
  • Girl

• It is a funny view of the world that a book can cause riots.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Book
  • Funny

• People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, 'I'm getting even.' … For me, being funny is the best revenge.

  

  Art Buchwald
  • People
  • Trying
  • Funny

• I'd love to play Spiderman, but I'm definitely too old for that role now.

  

  Charlie Cox

• Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and 'gives the whole show away.' The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Live
  • Power
  • Feeling

• Truly, we do live on a 'water planet.' For us, water is that critical issue that we need. It's the most precious substance on the planet, and it links us to pretty much every environmental issue, including climate change, that we're facing.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Live
  • Pretty
  • Water

• There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Money
  • Doubt
  • Organization

• Life can be thought of as water kept at the right temperature in the right atmosphere in the right light for a long enough period of time.

  

  N.J. Berrill
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• If I ask for a goldfish, he spits a glob of phlegm into a jar of water.

  

  Eduardo C. Corral
  • Water
  • Goldfish

• There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.

  

  Roland Emmerich
  • Water
  • Hollywood