Sam Riley Quotes
I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
-
Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
-
Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
-
It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
-
I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
-
I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
-
My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
-
When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
-
If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
-
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
-
I don't know how people recognize me.
-
We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
-
When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
-
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
-
I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
-
When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.
-
We invite American companies looking to raise capital to list on the Bahrain Stock Exchange. The region has a liquidity oversupply approximating $1 trillion and this pool of capital can be tapped into by creative American companies. The next Facebook may very well get funded on the BSE.
-
Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
-
I was painfully shy as a child.
-
Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.
-
There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
-
For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.
-
The authorized biographers - the ones hand-picked to write the sanitized version of a subject's life - sit up front with the swells while the unauthorized biographer who writes without access or approval gets elbowed to the back of the bus.
-
I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
