Stanley Kubrick Quotes

The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.

Stanley Kubrick

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• Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Los Angeles
  • Angeles
  • Los

• I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • Believe
  • Friend

• Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Good
  • Now
  • Embrace

• In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • You
  • End
  • Yourself

• I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Me
  • Driving

• I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Know
  • Try
  • Slow

• All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Good
  • Wife
  • Happiness

• The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Like

• Big doors swing on little hinges.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Doors
  • Big
  • Swing

• Freedom is not a natural disposition, but God's precious gift to man. Those in whom viciousness becomes second-nature, those in whom brutality is linked with haughtiness, forfeit their ability and therefore their right to receive that gift. Hardening of the heart is the suspension of freedom.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Heart
  • Nature

• 'Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it.'

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Reality

• I've never had the patience of a teacher.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Teacher
  • Patience

• The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • People
  • Technology

• I'm not a robot.

  

  Kevin Pietersen

• Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.

  

  Chaim Potok
  • Time
  • Work

• 'Run' is exciting, about family secrets, the mystery surrounding them and the outdoor sport of parkour. The story itself is full of intrigue and action, but the parkour takes the story to another level. It was an absolutely incredible experience, working with experts from all over the country.

  

  Kelsey Chow
  • Country
  • Family
  • Experience

• You can have an intense connection to someone without being a good, lifelong mate for him. Love is complicated and difficult that way.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Good
  • Connection

• You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Know
  • Tea
  • Newspaper

• We are taking our culture and suturing it to America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going to disappear. Unlike other peoples who totally assimilated, we are more interested in co-assimilation.

  

  John Leguizamo
  • America
  • Culture

• ...there is the sheer emotional, intellectual, physical, chemical pleasure of your children. The honest truth is that the world holds no greater gratification than lying in bed with your children, putting your leg on top of them in a semi-crushing manner, while saying sternly, "You are a poo.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • World
  • Children
  • Truth

• It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Character
  • Evil

• The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Character
  • Emotional
  • Exercise