Monica Vitti Quotes

I played at being someone else in movies and live theater, and at being myself in life's most intense, fascinating game - the game of love.

Monica Vitti

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• I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Constitution

• Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Best
  • Environment
  • Animals

• Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Know
  • Player
  • Fans

• The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Up
  • Building
  • Down

• I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Opinion

• If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

  

  Larry Page
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Picture

• A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Ambition

• I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Always
  • Start
  • Size

• Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Leadership

• When you're a star, critics can't make or break you.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • You
  • Star
  • Make

• I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Face

• I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • World
  • Music
  • Culture

• I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• I became a freelance stylist to survive, and then I had a kid. I bankrupted in 1988 and had a kid in 1990.

  

  Maripol

• I've always been into cars. Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.

  

  Matthew Fox
  • Makeup

• And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk back, and it's sort of shaming in a way.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Bad
  • Nice

• I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.

  

  Kina Grannis
  • People
  • World
  • Amazing

• We need to go beyond saying, 'I know what these games do because I see my son playing them,' and try to understand the complexities - that different video games have different effects.

  

  Daphne Bavelier
  • Different
  • Son

• I'm drawn as well to the lower echelons of things because it struck me a long time ago that it didn't really matter on what level people were working on anything; it was just as important to them as the people working on what's perceived as a higher level.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Movies
  • Kid
  • Watch

• These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Power
  • Equality

• At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Believe
  • School

• I played at being someone else in movies and live theater, and at being myself in life's most intense, fascinating game - the game of love.

  

  Monica Vitti
  • Game
  • Movies
  • Played