Hiroyuki Sanada Quotes

I am glad to be here to create a new history in our industry. I'm very proud of this.

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• Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Food
  • Evil
  • Personality

• It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Human
  • Actor

• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Like
  • Outside
  • Philadelphia

• As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Friends
  • Child
  • Classmates

• While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Different
  • Free

• Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Single
  • Car
  • Design

• I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • Play
  • Superhero

• We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Self

• It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.

  

  Flume
  • Fun
  • Voice
  • Explore

• Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Crazy

• I've always found the rain very calming.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Always
  • Rain
  • Very

• Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Business
  • Today
  • Reality

• As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent.

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Sad

• It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Thoughts
  • Spring
  • Actions

• Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Long
  • Society
  • Space

• We need a President who is fighting for all Americans, not one who writes off nearly half the country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Fighting

• One cannot reduce terror by holding over the world the threat of what it most fears.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • World

• The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Police
  • Stuff
  • Academy

• I'm very proud to say I only took one course in economics in college, and it was on Saturday morning - Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8 o'clock. Now I don't know what your college experience was like, but I'll tell ya, on Saturday morning at 8 o'clock, the last thing I wanted to do was go to economics class.

  

  Bernard von NotHaus
  • Experience
  • College
  • Proud

• I'm really proud to be a woman making music. Nothing makes me happier than when other women approach me at shows and say, "You've inspired me to start writing music," or, "I feel like we could be best friends." Music is a male-dominated business, so it's nice to see bands with girls in them, and not just a bunch of dudes with beards in flannel shirts.

  

  Bethany Cosentino
  • Music
  • Business
  • Proud

• It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

  

  Bill Keller
  • Discipline

• I am glad to be here to create a new history in our industry. I'm very proud of this.

  

  Hiroyuki Sanada
  • Proud
  • Industry
  • Glad