Amedeo Modigliani Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
-
One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
-
Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
-
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
-
Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
-
The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
-
As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
-
I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
-
I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
-
The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
-
In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
-
I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
-
I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
-
My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
-
The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
-
I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
-
I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
-
With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.
-
My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing their relationship has had a profound impact, seeing how tough it is for both of them and seeing how the roles change and how my mother has gone from being a daughter to being the mother.
-
The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
-
I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
-
I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
-
Authenticity, to me, is something that you feel, and if it doesn't feel authentic, you pick up on it right away.
-
I want to be a tune swept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.
