Cary Elwes (Ivan Simon Cary Elwes) Quotes

I think that two-dimensional film will always be here to stay because it always has its place, but 3D does too.

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• I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • School
  • Day
  • Sick

• Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Strong
  • Dead
  • Older

• Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Up
  • Music
  • Important

• I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Time
  • Reason
  • Season

• I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Hope
  • Worry
  • Scary

• I don't believe in strong-arming people.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Me
  • Stars
  • Sorry

• I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Democracy
  • Corporate
  • Boards

• There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Real
  • Violence

• I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Night

• Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Honor

• If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Want
  • Me
  • Him

• I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Father
  • Loved
  • Fathers Day

• My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Culture
  • Stupid
  • Popular

• When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Up
  • School
  • Book

• Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Men
  • Society
  • Philosophy

• In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Attention
  • Name

• I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Just

• I've seen people talk about how they stopped polio, that was a generation that came together and said, "Let's do this." I think in the AIDS community we've become so complacent in that, it's like we just plateaued... We've completely neglected a whole young generation that is now highly infected.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Generation
  • Aids
  • Infected

• I think I'm a bit odd.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Odd

• The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.

  

  Harry Seidler
  • Space
  • Government
  • Playgrounds

• If I do an interview with Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

  

  Scott Pelley
  • Holocaust
  • Journalist
  • Interview

• Each film is difficult, in its own particular way. There's a unique set of challenges on every movie.

  

  Josh Radnor
  • Way
  • Film
  • Challenges

• I think that two-dimensional film will always be here to stay because it always has its place, but 3D does too.

  

  Cary Elwes
  • Film