Tony Scott Quotes

With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.

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• I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Life
  • World
  • Want

• Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Director
  • Big
  • Platform

• If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Lazy
  • Get

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Bike
  • Riding

• I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Fashion
  • Retreat
  • Cave

• We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Power
  • Society

• Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.

  

  LaToya London
  • Up
  • Know
  • Focus

• We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.

  

  Larry Smith
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Three
  • Take

• Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Light
  • Struggle
  • Angry

• The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • American
  • Problem
  • Border

• Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • People
  • Think
  • Divorce

• There are some who might say that somebody named Barack Obama can’t be elected senator in the state of Illinois. They’re probably the same folks who said that a guy named Rod Blagojevich couldn’t be elected governor of the state of Illinois.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Guy

• I just like the themes it's exploring. In the way my character says, 'I want us to become brothers again, like we used to be.' I really like that line, and it means a lot to me. I just find there's a lot of things like that in this movie that have that feeling. There's stuff that feels exhilarating.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Feeling

• For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.

  

  Samuel Lover

• The characteristic of the present age is a craving credulity.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Age
  • Present

• I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

  

  Al Sharpton
  • Believe
  • Running
  • Party

• He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

  

  Moliere
  • Cook
  • Visits
  • Dinners

• What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Dreams
  • Books

• My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world. Then they become involved in some kind of action where by necessity they're forced to reengage, to get back into the game of life, as it were. You could say that about 'Chance.'

  

  Kem Nunn
  • Life
  • World
  • Game

• Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.

  

  Yasuhiro Konishi
  • Character

• With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.

  

  Tony Scott
  • World
  • Different
  • Character