M. Night Shyamalan Quotes

For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

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• I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Mother
  • Game
  • Strength

• I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Great
  • Game
  • Interesting

• It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Deep

• I like things simple.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Things

• If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Hope

• I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Women
  • Never
  • Played

• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Real
  • Yourself

• All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Energy
  • Dependent
  • Peninsula

• Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • American
  • You
  • Inside

• I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • School
  • High
  • Brother

• All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • May
  • Deep
  • Sad

• Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • People
  • Business
  • Me

• I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • World
  • Challenge
  • Creating

• My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Great
  • College
  • Brother

• I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Movie
  • Kind

• You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.

  

  Adam Beach
  • You
  • Doing
  • Nation

• The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

  

  Mary Catherine Bateson
  • Family
  • Understanding

• Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Attention

• All that is talk, and no one has talked to me about it. People are always going to say things and assume things, but it is an injury like anything else. It was frustrating and tough to come back, but I feel great.

  

  Alecko Eskandarian
  • Injury
  • Comeback
  • Assume

• When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Trust
  • Dark
  • Jump

• I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.

  

  Kelly Macdonald
  • Different
  • Strong

• For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Bad
  • Attention
  • Audience