Simon Fuller Quotes

I understand popular entertainment better than anyone. I want to have the world's No. 1 tennis player, the hottest movie, the biggest artist.

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• I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • God
  • Reason
  • Look

• Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Done

• I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Chance

• If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Words

• I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Real
  • Nice
  • Kind

• This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Me

• I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Economics

• Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • History
  • Learn

• My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Make
  • Plan
  • Canada

• No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Getting Older

• I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Play
  • Like
  • Story

• I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writer

• I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Labor
  • Intuitive
  • Courting

• I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Sweet

• There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Important
  • Think
  • Game

• People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • People
  • Taken
  • Sometimes

• Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • World
  • News
  • White

• I thought if I came back early and played well, I would have a chance to make points early. That's still my goal.

  

  Brad Faxon
  • Chance
  • Goal
  • Played

• I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Thinking
  • Please
  • Honey

• If did go back to school, I would want to learn another aspect of the entertainment industry like to become a producer or an agent, you need a law degree.

  

  Ethan Embry
  • School
  • Entertainment
  • Aspect

• My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Life
  • Road
  • Magic

• Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Great
  • Doing
  • Well

• I understand popular entertainment better than anyone. I want to have the world's No. 1 tennis player, the hottest movie, the biggest artist.

  

  Simon Fuller
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