Sidney Lumet (Sidney Arthur Lumet) Quotes

All good work requires self-revelation.

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• Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Once

• I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Want
  • Know
  • Style

• Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Great
  • Money
  • Future

• My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Age
  • Man
  • Change

• I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Marriage

• People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
  • Acting

• The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.

  

  Wang Leehom
  • Culture
  • Relationship
  • West

• I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Drama
  • New York

• If I don't explain or tell some of my experiences, I feel like I'm doing guys a disservice because I know as a younger player, there's things I could benefit from the experience of an older guy.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Experience
  • Guy
  • Know

• My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Mom
  • Face
  • Skin

• We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Trying
  • Movie
  • Learning

• In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Values
  • Sensitive
  • Infinity

• Although it is hard to see why any sensible authority would feel threatened by the peaceful expression of one's point of view, there is a long history of trying to repress subversive depictions of political figures - back in the 19th century, for example, France's King Louis Philippe was depicted as a piece of fruit.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Why

• Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Want

• I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Like

• Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Human
  • Create
  • Activity

• The way governments treat their own citizens matters; it matters because it can have a direct impact on international peace and security - and on our respective national security interests.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Peace
  • Security
  • Impact

• My kids are all pretty big and tough and strong, and I don't worry about them being bullied - the reverse, be kind to people and don't ever be a bully yourself, and I think they've followed that.

  

  Alan Thicke
  • People
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• You face racism in small and large ways.

  

  Jayson Blair
  • Small
  • Racism

• I looked out, the field was, looked like million, million and a half people. They showed a field where there was practically nobody standing there. And they said, 'Donald Trump did not draw well.' I said, 'It was almost raining!' The rain should've scared them away but God looked down and said we're not going to let it rain on your speech.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • God
  • Trump

• All good work requires self-revelation.

  

  Sidney Lumet
  • Work
  • Revelation
  • Requires