Ridley Scott Quotes

A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

Ridley Scott

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• We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Find
  • Try
  • China

• I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Funny

• Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!

  

  Zendaya
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Hair

• You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Time
  • Space
  • Learn

• Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Progress
  • Forward

• You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Remember

• Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • She
  • Black

• A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Know
  • Enjoy
  • Fans

• My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Mom
  • Passionate
  • Taught

• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Value
  • Like
  • Proverbs

• I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

  

  Banks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Black

• Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Reality
  • Best
  • Performance

• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Man
  • Literature
  • Pen

• I like action-adventure movies.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Action
  • Like
  • Movies

• I do not believe that people who go on strike in this country have a legitimate cause. Throughout the period of the Labour Government and this one, I have never supported any strikes in this country.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.

  

  Adrian Cronauer
  • People
  • Sky
  • Blue

• I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Work
  • Different
  • Trying

• I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark times in my life to where I wasn't walking the walk and talking the talk, or I may have been talking the talk, but I wasn't walking the walk.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Life
  • May
  • Dark

• Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of Metallica shows because I was lame. By the time I got into them, they were playing places like the Kabuki.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • Time
  • City
  • Couple

• And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Work
  • Women
  • Equal Pay

• I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

  

  Francois Truffaut
  • Work
  • Long

• Remember I came to Albuquerque to do a hair and makeup test and wardrobe fitting; you guys were already shooting. It's tough when the movie's already started and you kind of show up. You're the new kid on the block. I walked onto the set and Tommy Lee Jones was about to do the scene. I just kind of walked up to him. I was shaking, but I just gave him this big hug and he just had nothing to say. He was like, 'Gotta go to work now.' I had a great time working with him."

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Remember
  • Makeup
  • Scene

• When shooting in real spaces, the work of a cinematographer begins where location meets production design meets time of day. No movie light will ever look as real as the sun, so scheduling becomes truly paramount to naturalistic lighting.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

  

  Ridley Scott
  • Movie
  • Enjoy
  • Personally