Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes

I'm not a snob. If I feel like there's a star that's the best person for that role, then that's who I get.

Steven Soderbergh

• Star
• Role
• Snob

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Film
  • Person
  • Certain

• The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Job
  • Success

• I don't write about my life in my column.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Life
  • Write
  • My Life

• It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Color
  • Out
  • Dictates

• I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Me
  • Like
  • Feel

• Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Religion
  • Islam

• The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Up
  • Different
  • Country

• I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I'm a very creative person. I always liked making stuff. Apart from music, I always liked making clothes. You're able to express yourself.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Yourself

• I think the kind of films and roles I do takes a whole year... I think it is justified. At some point, we have to come to that place where we are equally paid. It is a small step... we are headed to that direction.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Small
  • Year
  • Step

• The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Me
  • Said
  • More

• I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Home
  • Happy

• No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Book
  • Eye
  • Spring

• Gigi is my perfect partner. She's my best friend. She's the most fun of anyone I know, and she's also the kindest and most tolerant person.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Fun
  • Partner
  • Best Friend

• I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Age

• Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Experience
  • Past
  • Theatre

• I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Work
  • Painting
  • Color

• For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Women
  • Think
  • Man

• Don't be a rock star. I've seen people around me have their lives destroyed by drugs. It just depends on what kind of person you are. Like, some people have a "go" button and a "stop" button, and some people just have the "go" button, meaning that they take drugs and just take more, and more, and more. It could be 6 in the morning and they'll say, "Okay, I have to get more now." I'm not that kind of person.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • People
  • Stop
  • Kind

• Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Happens
  • Show
  • Knew

• I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Past
  • Nice

• I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control.

  

  Jeff Gordon
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Control

• If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids? If they're not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they're doing is wrong? With all this stuff going on, with the "Don't ask, don't tell" and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely. It just seems to me that it's hypocritical for us as a culture to say, "Bullying is a terrible thing," when really, they are just reflecting what the society is doing.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Country
  • Kids

• I'm not a snob. If I feel like there's a star that's the best person for that role, then that's who I get.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Star
  • Role
  • Snob