Cecil B. DeMille (Cecil Blount DeMille) Quotes

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Cecil B. DeMille

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• And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Important
  • Political
  • Balance

• My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
  • She
  • History

• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Age
  • Ideas
  • Class

• Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Prayer
  • Weakness
  • Confession

• The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Crime
  • Eternal

• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Fiction

• Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Like
  • Chocolate
  • Candy

• Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Quality

• I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Live
  • Networking

• We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Music
  • Control
  • Government

• Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Politics

• My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Live
  • Pictures
  • Tools

• No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Always
  • Person
  • Matter

• It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Friends
  • Play
  • Couple

• A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Dream
  • City
  • Girlfriend

• If your not cheering for me, for what I'm doing, don't cheer for me. Don't cheer cause you think I'm cute, you know what I'm saying, screw that. Cheer for me for what I'm doing, for what I stand for, and when I go to jail you should cheer louder.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Cute
  • Cheer

• I once knew a girl In the years of my youth With eyes like the summer All beauty and truth In the morning I fled Left a note and it read Someday you will be loved.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Truth
  • Girl
  • Eyes

• In talking about memory and our history, I think our humanity, especially in China, is cut. Cut, broken, separated. If we have a character from our history and memory, the character is broken, it’s shattered.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Character
  • History
  • Humanity

• I'm actually really bad at the Internet. I'm never scouring it to find new artists or new anything.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Bad

• I woke myself up to make sure I wasn’t dreaming, that Mike was really beside me. I kissed the pillow close up near his cheek because I didn’t want to wake him. He opened one eye and grinned at me. “Don’t waste ’em, kitten."

  

  Benedict Freedman
  • Dreaming
  • Kissed
  • Grinned

• Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Peace
  • Problem
  • Process

• Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Doing

• All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Important
  • Success
  • Bridge

• Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

  

  Cecil B. DeMille
  • Creativity
  • Drug