Daniel Barenboim Quotes
I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
-
More modern poetry is written than read.
-
Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
-
In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
-
You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
-
The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
-
Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
-
In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
-
All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
-
Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
-
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
-
I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
-
I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
-
I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
-
E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
-
I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
-
I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
-
Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
-
Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.
-
I'm interested in power.
-
You can do anything your heart can imagine.
-
In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.
-
Never in the history of niggadom...
-
I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.
