William Monahan Quotes

If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.

William Monahan

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• I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Why
  • Want

• Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Relationships

• I always like to sing barefoot.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Like
  • Always
  • Barefoot

• When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Body
  • Better

• The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Time
  • Long
  • Equal

• When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high. You know, kids that become geeks become one because of something. Like, they aren't good at sports, or girls don't like them. I, too, for some reason, got into things like science fiction and, well, especially science fiction as an escape.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Good
  • Kids
  • High

• Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • Man
  • Me

• Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Really
  • Were
  • Blur

• I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • High
  • Never
  • First

• Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Great
  • Today
  • Game

• The stars that have most glory have no rest.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Nature
  • Rest
  • Stars

• I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Development
  • Economic

• Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Responsibility
  • Challenge

• I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop's ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Think
  • Responsibility
  • Fans

• I don't focus on the scale. I focus on doing my job. The team staff and the program I've been working on, they've been touching on that, but I don't focus on the scale.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Job
  • Team
  • Focus

• All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Up
  • God
  • Writing

• I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Law
  • Never
  • Practice

• Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • True
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• I like being the lead but I like being in an ensemble. There are different challenges and dilemmas with both. If you're carrying a film, there's a certain weight, but there are a lot of scenes to explore the character. When you're in an ensemble, you have to convey the entire character in a limited number of scenes.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Different
  • Character
  • Film

• I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming up after can't work with just paper and pencils any more. I managed to avoid using a computer. I don't even have a cellphone. I feel lucky I managed to live like that.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Film
  • Son
  • Feels

• It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

  

  Zac Efron
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Me

• For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themselves, the universe itself rushes apart, and we ourselves are composed of matter in constant flux. Colonies of cells in temporary alliance, replicating and decaying and housed within, an incandescent cloud of electrical impulse and precariously stacked carbon code memory. This is reality, this is self knowledge, and the perception of it will, of course, make you dizzy.

  

  Richard K. Morgan
  • Memories
  • Perception
  • Civilization

• If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.

  

  William Monahan
  • Film
  • Playing
  • Theater