Milos Forman Quotes

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

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• In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • World
  • Job
  • Jealous

• Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Build
  • Reputation
  • Lawyers

• In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Pride

• I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Remember
  • Like
  • Face

• If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Life
  • Good
  • Team

• If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Today
  • Alive
  • Spinning

• My sister had some ailment and convulsions that she suffered from, and she had been sent to some place to go and get healed there. She was brought back and prayed for by those people. She recovered; in fact, she grew to be an evangelist in her own right, healing people and traveling around.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • She
  • Sister

• Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is alright, as long your values don't change.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Long

• As the coding movement continues to grow, the common narrative of the white male geek as the predominant influencer on geek culture will erode.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Culture

• I don't hate people who colour-blind cast, but I hate people who colour-blind cast and pretend that they're not, who pretend that these bodies on stage don't actually carry specific meaning.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • People
  • Hate

• I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Music
  • Career
  • College

• I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

  

  Adelaide Kane
  • She
  • Character
  • Hate

• I met Barack Obama, I read his book, I like him a great deal. I disagree with him on very fundamental issues.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Great
  • Book

• Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.

  

  Brian Kernighan
  • Different

• Other people have hang-ups about what's literary or genre or whatever, and that's sort of not my problem. You're supposed to write what you have to write, and you're supposed to keep moving.

  Colson Whitehead
  • People
  • Moving

• A lot of people come from small towns, and they come here wondering 'Can I really make it in Hollywood?' When I went to L.A., I knew I was going to make it. There's no doubt about it. Why? Because I'm from Chicago!

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • People
  • Why
  • Small

• I had admired the way the producers of the 'Harry Potter' franchise had found David Yates, who ended up doing their four final movies, and he'd come from television.

  

  Kevin Feige
  • Up

• I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Song
  • Records

• It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.

  

  Philip Glass
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Twitter should ban my mother.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Twitter

• Anything that brings you to a decision will be answered. The stronger the decision is, the faster it's answered. So if you're in a situation where it seems life or death, and the desire is strong, it is answered now, because it must be answered now to be answered at all.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Strong
  • Desire
  • Decision

• My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.

  

  Michael Carbonaro
  • Beautiful
  • Being
  • Learned

• I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

  

  Milos Forman
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Knows