Roland Joffe Quotes
Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.
Quotes to Explore
-
Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
-
The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
-
It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
-
For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.
-
I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
-
Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
-
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
-
If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
-
I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
-
I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.
-
Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
-
My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.
-
There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
-
What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.
-
Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, really? Me?
-
The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.
-
No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an' set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an' th' other hisses Miscreent ye can bet they're two dimmycratic leaders thryin' to reunite th' gran' ol' party.
-
The revolution starts at the bottom.
-
I went to a freak show and they let me in for nothing.
-
Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in 'Transformers.' I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films.
-
I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.
-
The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead.
-
Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.
