Miguel Ferrer (Miguel José Ferrer) Quotes

I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.

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• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Man

• Necessity makes even the timid brave.

  

  Sallust
  • Brave
  • Necessity
  • Even

• When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Work
  • Understand

• I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Choice

• A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • May
  • You

• When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Child
  • Uncle

• Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Talent
  • Stupidity

• I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • She
  • Remember
  • Funny

• I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.

  

  T-Pain
  • Rest
  • Myself
  • Treat

• When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Music
  • Rock

• 'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Weird

• Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I think there's much more fashion competition in the more junior levels of the fashion department. And that's exciting and stimulating to see, because it's 'Vogue;' it's great to see people dressed originally and with great style and panache. It wouldn't be 'Vogue' otherwise.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • People
  • Great
  • Fashion

• It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Company
  • Will
  • Useful

• Big doors swing on little hinges.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Doors
  • Big
  • Swing

• And finally, let’s remember that peace with justice depends on our ability to sustain both the security of our societies and the openness that defines them. Threats to freedom don’t merely come from the outside. They can emerge from within - from our own fears, from the disengagement of our citizens.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Remember
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• There's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Diversity

• I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.

  

  Jay Parini
  • House
  • Wife
  • Study

• People feel good about doing things with you if you're enthusiastic.

  

  Elizabeth Mitchell
  • People
  • Good

• I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Energy

• Whisky has always tasted like introspection to me, a quiet moment after taking a sip, the lingering aftertaste, inviting you to ponder upon the flavours on your tongue.

  

  Hannu Rajaniemi
  • Tongue
  • Whisky
  • Flavours

• Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the balm of life, and perhaps in the world it is believed to consist of bitterness, harshness, uncouthness; but, take my word for it, nothing is more gentle, more yielding, more loving than a pious soul.

  

  Eugenie de Guerin
  • People
  • Character
  • Soul

• There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character.

  

  Walter Camp
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Effort

• I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.

  

  Miguel Ferrer
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Biographies