Richard Linklater Quotes

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

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• It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Chance

• If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Single

• I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Think
  • Rock
  • King

• We are now confronted with the necessity of remedying the remedies.

  

  E. W. Howe

• Your problem is your role models were models.

  

  Lily Tomlin

• To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Job
  • American
  • Age

• Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Real

• If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals.

  

  Liang Chow
  • Work
  • Goals

• I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Life
  • Important
  • Choices

• With solos, I don't like to be too prepared going in - I like to surprise myself.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush

• For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Great
  • Together
  • Faith

• I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity's previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Society

• I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

  

  Emma Watson

• There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

  

  Epictetus
  • Good
  • Evil

• Individuals whose asylum claims have been accepted have gone on to become professors, soldiers in our military, artists, and more.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • Military

• Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • Long
  • Understanding
  • Perspective

• I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Help
  • Angry
  • Confused

• I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Nice
  • Fact
  • Diamond

• Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

  

  Charles Luckman
  • Success
  • Courage

• I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Kind

• Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

  

  Ami Ayalon
  • Future
  • Earth
  • Present

• Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

  

  Richard Linklater
  • Thinking
  • Inspiring
  • Filmmaker