Quentin Tarantino Quotes

I just realized that I need to be a director - for two reasons. One, directors were already my heroes at this point. I wanted to; when I wanted to be an actor I wanted to work with this director. Not work with this actor, I wanted to work for this director.

Quentin Tarantino

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• You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

  

  Warren Beatty
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• I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.

  

  Adam DeVine
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• My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• I feel like I've made good friends with people I've worked with, but in terms of lasting inspiration, it is probably Matthew Vaughn who directed 'Kingsman' who's been really supportive, loyal to me, and been a really good person to work with.

  

  Taron Egerton
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• I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

  

  Aaron Huey
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• Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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• My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
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• I am not here to beat anyone. I am here to make a name for myself, and I am glad to work with great directors. I don't believe in the term 'next superstar.'

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
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• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work.

  

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• I've never seen hard work fail.

  

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• My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
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• Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

  

  Barack Obama
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• You know, sometimes if you work – if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody's so tired.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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• I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.

  

  G. W. Bailey
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• It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.

  

  Valentino Rossi
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• I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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• Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

  

  Barney Frank
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• As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.

  

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• All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

  

  Honore de Balzac
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• When we lose, we don't have to change everything but correct things by working hard.

  

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• Never drew a paycheck outside of baseball.

  

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• Anytime anybody jumps out at me, I scream.

  

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• I just realized that I need to be a director - for two reasons. One, directors were already my heroes at this point. I wanted to; when I wanted to be an actor I wanted to work with this director. Not work with this actor, I wanted to work for this director.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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