Stanley Kubrick Quotes

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

Stanley Kubrick

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• I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Business
  • Fear
  • Failure

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Think
  • Always
  • Emotional

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Emotional

• Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Friends
  • Opinion
  • Differences

• My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.

  

  Gallant
  • Live
  • Want
  • Emotional

• Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Men
  • Different
  • Emotional

• I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scared of me. That's just kind of the nature of who I am as a person and player. But I also know that you have to be emotional. You have to be in touch with your feelings. I think that's important.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Nature
  • Player
  • Feelings

• 'Sanam Re' is an amalgamation of an emotional love story and a visual treat.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Emotional
  • Story

• Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn’t get all its oil from OPEC.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Society
  • Strong
  • Emotional

• Certainly, when you're dealing with more deep, emotional work and sensory work, for me, it helps me to just stay in it.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Work
  • Deep
  • Emotional

• I feel very strongly influenced by long-form box-set TV drama... I feel really excited that, at last, the novel has found its on-screen equivalent, because the emotional arcs and changes that you can follow are just so much more like a novel, and so many amazing shows recently have done as much as film can do to show the interior world.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • World
  • Long
  • Done

• The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Women
  • Family
  • Words

• Certainly, network television in general relies a little bit too much on keeping people focused and emotional and scared and pushing the envelope by building wall-to-wall music.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • People
  • Music
  • Emotional

• I like emotional horror. I don't like horror movies. I hate them. But, if you can make emotional horror movies, I'm in. If I can care and root for the main character, then I'm in.

  

  Kevin Williamson
  • Character
  • Hate
  • Emotional

• It's a big thing in my music to highlight being human - being emotional and powerful, like a goddess.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • Music
  • Powerful
  • Emotional

• Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Life
  • Long
  • Film

• The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct.... girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing.... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly.

  

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

  

  Petrarch
  • Books
  • Delight
  • Bones

• Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Man
  • Change
  • Impossible

• What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can't do that any more than you can get into a barroom fight without getting hurt... Unless the American people are willing to send their sons out to fight an aggressor, there just isn't going to be any United States.

  

  Chesty Puller
  • People
  • American
  • War

• Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Emotional
  • Actors
  • Taste