Shirley Henderson Quotes
I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
-
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.
-
For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
-
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
-
My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
-
Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
-
Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
-
If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
-
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
-
It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
-
The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
-
India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.
-
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
-
It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
-
A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
-
When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
-
My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
-
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
-
Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.
-
Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.
-
Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.
-
Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.
-
You don't have to prove anything to anyone.
-
I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.
