Steven Moffat (Steven William Moffat) Quotes

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

Steven Moffat

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• When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • People
  • Trying
  • Career

• The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Creative
  • Others

• You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.

  

  Tanya Fischer
  • Up
  • Good
  • May

• I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Up
  • Trust
  • Chance

• Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Star

• I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.

  

  Hafez
  • God
  • Myself
  • Christian

• 'House of Cards' opened some doors. I've been able to tackle some diverse stories and characters.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • House
  • Doors
  • Cards

• I remember I did a boxing class. I remember sparring one time, and the guy smacked me right in the nose, and I was just like, 'What is this? No. No. None of that.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Guy

• New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • New
  • New York

• I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Hate
  • Point
  • Admitting

• Anything that consoles is fake.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Fake
  • Anything
  • Consoles

• I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • People

• We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • Long
  • Couple
  • Stupid

• I go through my day remembering things like telephone cords.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan

• I'm a bit of a groupie.

  

  Jerry Hall

• I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else.

  

  Daryl Hannah
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• Misery is a communicable disease.

  

  Martha Graham

• I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

  

  Marie Osmond
  • Work
  • Control
  • Environment

• I think sketch writing is a good spot for everyone to start because it requires you to develop characters, have a beginning, middle and end and have a bunch of jokes in a short amount of time.

  

  Blake Anderson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

  

  Jamie Foxx
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Athlete

• The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet.

  

  Jacques Maritain
  • Truth
  • Desire

• The law of all modern states takes account of associations, whose members, in theory, pursue the common end with equal zeal. The experience of all associations proves, however, that this is not the case, and that a lively, constant and vigorous awareness of the end is found only in a minority of the associates; an association is really rather like a comet—a large tail of docile followers dragged along by a small dynamic head.

  

  Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • Experience
  • Law
  • Associations

• Teach principles not formulas.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Principles
  • Formulas

• Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

  

  Steven Moffat
  • Writing
  • Adults
  • Swearing