Michael Winner Quotes

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

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• Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Finish

• Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Time
  • Work
  • Problem

• I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Think
  • Positive
  • Cope

• The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Enjoy

• I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.

  

  Mako
  • School
  • America
  • Weird

• I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Picture
  • Dying

• I choose to express myself.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Myself
  • Choose
  • Express

• Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Me
  • New

• When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • You
  • Battle
  • Wrinkles

• It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • You
  • Better
  • Opinions

• Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Free
  • Someone
  • Loving

• Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • People
  • Trying
  • Sex

• It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

  

  Zac Efron
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Me

• I suppose one of the challenges of writing the word-side of music these days is trying to decipher and communicate how this planet is very overwhelming at this point. The difficulties we face are overwhelming. It's very difficult to give yourself the time to breathe and appreciate the joy and beauty that might be just right around us.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Marriage
  • Doing

• The whole system of society tells you what to do.

  

  Barry White
  • Society
  • You
  • Whole

• As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• You don't become the character.

  

  Peter Fonda
  • Character

• A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

  

  Francis Atterbury
  • Character
  • Should
  • Established

• I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Politics
  • Audience
  • Cinema

• When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Girl
  • Opportunity
  • Space

• Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Will

• Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Change
  • Die
  • Old

• During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

  

  Michael Winner
  • Cinema
  • Winner