Michael Eklund Quotes

Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same to me and I approach the work in the same way. My job is to lift the character from the page, whether it's a TV or film script.

Michael Eklund

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• Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • High
  • Brain

• You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

  

  Jack Black
  • Power
  • Never
  • Underestimate

• We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Happiness

• The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Acting

• I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • See
  • Page
  • Leap

• Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Want
  • Weird
  • Test

• Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Day
  • One Day
  • Pyramids

• In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mind

• When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.

  

  Raekwon
  • Think
  • Career
  • Want

• Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Me
  • Never
  • Him

• Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Government
  • Democracy

• Communication services need interoperability to succeed - and Loopt is the first such service since SMS that is available across all major U.S. wireless carriers.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Service
  • Communication

• To be understood is to prostitute yourself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I have sought, but I seek it vainly,That one lost chord divine,Which came from the soul of the Organ,And entered into mine. It may be that Death's bright angelWill speak in that chord again,It may be that only in HeavenI shall hear that grand Amen.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • May
  • Soul
  • Death

• Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own point of view, or the more he is prepared to admit the possibility that he may have to learn something, not merely about the thinkers of the past, but from them.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • May
  • Past
  • Understanding

• In my everyday life, I'm a jeans and button-up shirt kind of guy.

  

  James Wolk
  • Life
  • Up
  • Guy

• I often play characters on TV shows that are more sweet and naive and just kind of puppy-dog eyes, and I don't think I am like that as a person.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Eyes
  • Dog
  • Sweet

• I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

  

  Donald Dunn
  • People
  • Happy
  • Mother

• In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

  

  Jaromir Jagr
  • Mistake

• I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Same

• Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

  

  Jack Welch
  • World
  • Best
  • Globalization

• All of the 29 Marines that I went in [with], we got together and made a code in our own language. There were over 400 or 500 words that we made up at that time. We memorized them and everything was up here.

  

  Chester Nez
  • Language
  • Made
  • Code

• I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • You
  • Woman
  • Design

• Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same to me and I approach the work in the same way. My job is to lift the character from the page, whether it's a TV or film script.

  

  Michael Eklund
  • Character
  • Job
  • Approach