Milos Forman Quotes

Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Country
  • Loved

• When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Myself
  • Style
  • Finish

• I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

  

  Iman
  • Father
  • Science
  • Political

• Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • American
  • Party
  • System

• The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Single

• Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Think
  • Courage
  • Years

• I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Growing

• Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Long
  • Small

• I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Brain

• Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Country
  • You
  • Lunch

• No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Matter

• For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Writing
  • Growth
  • English

• The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Feel
  • Brother
  • Youth

• 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

• My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Childhood

• Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Day
  • Rest
  • Practice

• It is with passion that I love my job. But it is with character that I am able to keep looking forward. Not just beyond criticism or bad results, but also beyond the good moments, too. Everything has to be a balance.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Good
  • Character
  • Job

• Things like the movie 'Memento' are interesting to me because our memories of the things we've done and how we've behaved form our notion of who we are, what our character is. So if part of that were missing, what does that actually say about you? And what does it say about your sense of responsibility for things if you can't remember them?

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • Done
  • Character
  • Remember

• What gets yme excited about a project and character is the director, the script, who's involved in the movie, and the character. Those are pretty much the essentials. If it's something different, if it scares me, in a way, if it will stretch me or push me into certain places that I haven't been to, then I like that. If you're just trying to talk yourself into it, then it's probably not for you. It's hard to be selective.

  

  Sebastian Stan
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Character

• O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • World
  • American
  • America

• Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.

  

  Milos Forman
  • Character
  • Company