Cary Elwes (Ivan Simon Cary Elwes) Quotes

I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.

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• Mark Twain cannot be defined.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Mark
  • Mark Twain
  • Twain

• If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.

  

  Dan Barber
  • World
  • Great
  • Food

• The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • America
  • Culture
  • Period

• Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Gender

• Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • World
  • Beautiful

• Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Hope
  • Game
  • Winners

• I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • World
  • Team
  • World Cup

• Nobody is talking about the different - until you raised the issue.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Different
  • Talking
  • Issues

• I think some of you have to go through the pain of being rejected, the pain of being attacked on television, and ultimately there are people at home who are rooting for you and are wondering why more people don't defend what they stand up for.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Great
  • Greatness
  • Ayrton Senna

• Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church.

  

  Alfred Loisy
  • God
  • Church
  • Jesus

• The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Christ
  • Doctrine

• A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

  

  C. V. Wedgwood

• I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Home
  • Growing
  • Food

• My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Family
  • Mother

• So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood.

  

  Octavius Winslow
  • Men
  • Die
  • Jesus

• The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Truth
  • Age
  • Soul

• A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • World
  • May
  • High

• I believe that when you really make the best music you can make from your heart, it will transcend all of those stereotypes, color issues, everything, because music is really made for human beings.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Music
  • Heart
  • I Believe

• The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Movie
  • Desire
  • Joy

• The biggest misconception about me was that I was some kind of wild, crazy rock'n'roll firework. It was an easy image to pick up on, but I'd like to think I was a little deeper than that.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Think
  • Image
  • Rock And Roll

• I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Man
  • Sky
  • Believe In God

• Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Wealth
  • Competence

• I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.

  

  Cary Elwes
  • Actors
  • Firsts
  • Scripts