Tony Scott Quotes
I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.
Quotes to Explore
-
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
-
We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
-
But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
-
Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
-
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
-
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
-
I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
-
I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
-
If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
-
I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
-
Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
-
To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
-
'Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imaginations.
-
Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.
-
The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
-
If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.
-
Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
-
I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama.
-
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
-
Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back.
-
Our professor was Marty Scorsese. Marty was a graduate student, or Mr. Scorsese, which is what I had to call him, and still do when I see him 'cause he gave me a C.
-
My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.
-
I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.
