R. Madhavan Quotes

I've always believed that the script is the boss.

R. Madhavan

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• I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • She
  • Job
  • House

• If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Real
  • Think

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Brain
  • Study
  • Same

• When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Film
  • First
  • Camera

• The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Important
  • Fight
  • Same

• Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Free
  • Learning
  • Leave

• I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Good
  • Balance

• I wonder if people who see 'Blade' will have even seen my other movies. But I don't want all my movies to be in a vacuum. I need a balance because one pays, and the other doesn't.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Balance

• I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Peace
  • Thought
  • Desert

• Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Either

• The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Time
  • English
  • Doubt

• And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Up
  • High
  • Rock

• I have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Age

• Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

  

  Charles Fillmore
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

  

  Kevin J. Anderson
  • Up
  • Words

• It is not easy to arrive in a different country and adapt quickly, but I think I'm getting there, and I'm proud of that.

  

  Anthony Martial
  • Different
  • Country
  • Proud

• People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

  

  Jeff Bingaman
  • People
  • Challenge

• I'm a Democrat because I want every American to have a fair shot at the American Dream. That's what ties it all together for me, and in my experience, that means recognizing that no one is dealing with life one 'issue' at a time.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Life
  • Time
  • Experience

• The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Running
  • Scar
  • Stitches

• The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Government
  • Christian
  • National

• Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Trying
  • Social
  • Tough

• As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• I've always believed that the script is the boss.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Boss
  • Believed
  • Script