Simon McBurney Quotes

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

Simon McBurney

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• With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Hard

• I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Hero
  • Force
  • Used

• I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Small
  • Day

• Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Up
  • Kitchen
  • Chocolate

• It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Doubt
  • Smoking
  • Statistics

• When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Interesting
  • Reading
  • Language

• It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Thought
  • Personality
  • Voice

• Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Work
  • Great
  • God

• Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all the time, I would say making the Bond movie 'Die Another Day.' To be part of such an iconic franchise and to travel to exotic places - that was the most fun I ever had.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Time
  • Good
  • Movie

• My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Desire
  • Leader
  • Been

• We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind.

  

  Maria Montessori
  • Work
  • Help
  • Soul

• I don’t feel any vulgar gratitude to you. I almost feel as if you ought to be grateful to me, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. I know you like it. For anything I can tell, I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • World
  • May
  • Giving

• I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.

  

  Prince Charles
  • God
  • Believe

• I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

  

  David Gest

• Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

  

  Brian Chesky

• I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.

  

  Rita Ora

• The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me.

  

  Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
  • Authenticity

• If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • Up

• We all need a firm sense of identity.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • Identity

• Republican government presupposes decent and admirable qualities among its citizens - so we should be serious about strengthening character and inculcating virtue.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • Character
  • Serious

• If I don't like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that's when I think I'll stop.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Stop

• My family was always playing music; I always enjoyed it. My cousin, who is a little older than me, he started playing music, so I wanted to, also. I asked my dad for a guitar, and he got me a banjo, so that was my introduction to playing. I played it like a guitar. I had a few lessons, learned out a few chords, and figured it out right away.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Music
  • Family
  • Dad

• I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

  

  Simon McBurney
  • Music
  • Theatre
  • Audience