William Beckett Quotes
A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.
Quotes to Explore
-
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
-
After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
-
Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.
-
No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
-
Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
-
I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
-
There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
-
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
-
I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
-
In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
-
I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.
-
I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.
-
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
-
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
-
I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.
-
It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
-
For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
-
When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.
-
I don't care about writing really.
-
A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.
-
I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.
-
For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.
-
A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.
