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

• There was a point in my teenage years, when we were starting to play bigger shows and females were running after tour buses and all that, and my mom - and I remember this like it was yesterday - said: 'Look, I want you to know that I couldn't be prouder of you. You are extraordinary. You move people. But it doesn't make you better than them. You still put your pants on the same way as them, one leg at a time every morning.' I thought about learning to jump right into them, just to mess with her. But what she said stuck with me, and I think it's true.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Former US president, drug baron and pedophile, George Herbert Walker Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting.

  

  David Icke
  • Experience
  • Drug

• My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Why
  • She
  • Lost

• We should judge one another. It stops us becoming animals. The pressure of failing in the eyes of society passes for some sort of morality.

  

  Adele Parks
  • Society
  • Eyes
  • Judge

• Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

  

  Cecil B. DeMille
  • Creativity
  • Drug