Stanley Kubrick Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
-
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
-
There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
-
I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
-
Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
-
I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
-
It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
-
When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
-
The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
-
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
-
I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
-
People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
-
The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
-
If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
-
I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.
-
The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
-
America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.
-
My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character as an author, he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.
-
The biggest lie in the world is in answer to the question, 'How are you?' People usually say, 'I'm fine,' but that's mostly bull. Everyone wants to display being perfect. They tell themselves and their friends, 'I drive this car, I own this house, I'm fine.' People ball up into these tight wads of repression.
-
Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
-
About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
-
If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
-
I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
-
The best education in film is to make one
