Sam Raimi Quotes

I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

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• I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Money
  • Want

• My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Change

• There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Sexy
  • Hollywood

• Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • High
  • Water

• I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • You
  • Always
  • Destiny

• I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Funny
  • Deserve
  • Award

• I've always wanted to do a period piece.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Always
  • Period
  • Wanted

• We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Religion
  • Islamic

• I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Play

• If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • World
  • Language
  • Someone

• I worked with Herb Ritts on the Marky Mark shoot, and then Steven Meisel, and then they'd start sending limos for me, and I was like, 'That is so embarrassing. I'm not getting in a stretch limo by myself to go to a shoot.' That whole New York thing of, 'You are fabulous! Turn up to a Meisel shoot in a limo and you're fabulous!'

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Start

• I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • School
  • Dream
  • Dance

• Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Religion
  • Quiet

• I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Bad
  • Mean
  • Underdog

• The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Eyes
  • Stage
  • Old

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • World
  • Change

• Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Children
  • Words
  • Innocent

• If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Conscious

• I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • World
  • Long
  • Me

• Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Power
  • Guy
  • Best

• To be honest, whenever I go to shoots, or I'm on set, it really makes makeup special and allows me to have so much more fun with it – I don't wear it on an everyday basis, because I like my skin to breathe.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Fun
  • Me
  • Everyday

• I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Style
  • Like

• I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Me
  • Best
  • Years