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

• I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• 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

• Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

  

  Jim Elliot

• Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

  

  Aaron Betsky
  • Life
  • Art
  • Design

• I guess that’s the thing about a hero’s journey. You might not start out a hero, and you might not even come back that way. But you change, which is the same as everything changing. The journey changes you, whether or not you know it, and whether or not you want it to.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Want
  • Journey
  • Hero

• Any business you go into, you have to think about how much money you are willing to put into it, and how much you are not.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Willing

• The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World
  • Why

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

  

  Milos Forman
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Knows