Miranda Otto Quotes

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

Miranda Otto

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• Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • People
  • Music
  • Expect

• Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Hate

• Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Atmosphere
  • Brains

• Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

  

  Xenophon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Escape

• Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Time
  • Period
  • Youth

• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Really

• Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Like
  • Silence
  • Word

• I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Child
  • Theatre
  • Grateful

• What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Always
  • Teach
  • Consciousness

• I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Me
  • Best
  • Prefer

• Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Soul
  • Hand
  • Yourself

• I try not to wear foundation unless I have a giant pimple, which sometimes I do. For the red carpet, I may add a brighter colored lip and darker eyes. But my standard is blush and mascara.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • May
  • Eyes
  • Red

• If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilities, and skills training and mentoring, we will all pay more in the long run.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Long
  • Training

• I work mostly in the studio; as I mentioned several times, the leaves are burgeoning and change so rapidly that I have been unable to prepare a single sketch. I am making little watercolors and pastels, I think they will come out all right; in the studio I am preparing five or six canvases, I work on one after another, I am getting used to working that way.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Work
  • Single

• My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Universe

• A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

  

  Leonard Bernstein
  • Future
  • Night

• I worry about that every single day: Am I being a good father?

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Good
  • Father
  • Single

• If you can come out from under pain, why wouldn't you? You definitely can. There's no question.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Why
  • Question
  • Pain

• Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Power
  • Fear

• Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

  

  Aristotle
  • Character
  • Happy
  • Actions

• I try not to look at stories on the Internet because I don't want to psych myself out. I kinda half to stay off the Internet. I'm not thick-skinned enough. I get too sensitive. I don't want it to effect what I'm doing.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Stories
  • Internet
  • Psych

• If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
  • Teenager

• If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

  

  Miranda Otto
  • Character
  • Imagination
  • Stories