Neil Oliver Quotes
I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.
Quotes to Explore
-
Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
-
I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
-
You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
-
I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
-
We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
-
I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
-
I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
-
The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
-
I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
-
I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
-
I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.
-
Day one through three of the radio tour, I actually went by Camaron Ochs. I went to my first set of radio remotes, and everybody was just like 'What's your last name?' It's not easy to pronounce. The first two minutes I got with people, that's what they wanted to talk about, and sometimes those two minutes is all you get.
-
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
-
Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
-
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
-
It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
-
I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.
-
In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.
-
How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?
-
So I'm very happy if my words can ever inspire or empower someone who considers themselves an oppressed minority. We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.
-
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
-
I learned that in dealing with things, you spent much more time and energy in dealing with people than in dealing with things.
-
Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
-
I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.
