Sidney Lumet (Sidney Arthur Lumet) Quotes
Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
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It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.
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I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
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Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
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When you write something by hand, there's a sort of intimacy that is just intrinsic to that act. You don't get to delete something in the same way, where it's like it was never there.
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I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much.
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And I missed it by two feet. It makes me understand and appreciate what the ball does do on its way into the plate.
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We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
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This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy.
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Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.
