William Faulkner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
-
With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
-
It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
-
Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
-
I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
-
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
-
I'm an honest, open father.
-
So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
-
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
-
The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
-
I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
-
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
-
I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
-
I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
-
As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
-
I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough!
-
If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
-
I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
-
It used to be if you wanted to be a comedian, you used to just do sets. You'd go up three times a night, just get better, and then some people would see you and you'd do 'The Tonight Show,' and then boom, you're a comedian.
-
I will persist until I succeed. I was not deIivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd.
-
There's a lot going on in the world that's very disturbing: rewriting the Holocaust; pseudo-historians rewriting history itself. And we're dealing with a terrorist mentality that involves whole nations.
-
People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.
-
The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.
-
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
