Stanley Kubrick Quotes
Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
Quotes to Explore
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
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I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.
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I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.
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In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.
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My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me. I fall in love much too quickly and that results in me getting badly hurt. The problem with love is that you lose control and that is a very vulnerable state to be in. I would love to really have a beautiful relationship with somebody, but it never seems to work out. What I would like most of all is to be in a state of blissful love.
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When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.
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I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.
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Do I believe in ghosts?...I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me.
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When Steve Ballmer calls me wacko, I consider that a compliment.
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Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
