Ben Gillies Quotes

Before we go on stage, all we really do is warm up usually... do some stretches, and drink something that makes you hyper like coke -- plenty, heaps and heaps of coke -- or just caffeine.

Ben Gillies Silverchair

• Stage
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• Coke

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• I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.

  

  Adam Green
  • Life
  • Working
  • Director

• A happy wife is a happy life.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Wife

• There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Problem
  • Nothing
  • Against

• I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Years
  • Vanity

• My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Age
  • Day
  • Social Media

• There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Die
  • Tradition
  • Elephant

• They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Success
  • Thought
  • Started

• That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • School
  • High
  • Night

• War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Good
  • War
  • Evil

• In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • People
  • World
  • Rich

• I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Picture
  • Happen
  • Instinct

• I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Player
  • Ambition
  • Wanted

• I am always looking for options that yield something unexpected.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Unexpected
  • Options

• I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Problem
  • Year
  • Teammates

• Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?

  

  Frances Wright
  • World
  • Change
  • Speak

• The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a genre, so to speak.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Kind
  • Artist
  • Speak

• For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Death
  • Come
  • Grandfather

• There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • American
  • America
  • Nature

• That year, the year after being in Motley Crue, was very difficult. But I learned, and I coped with it. And life is good still.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Difficult
  • Learned
  • Coped

• I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Stage
  • Wait
  • Explain

• My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Movies
  • Stage
  • Background

• F*ck, I can't remember. Jesus, we are getting boring! I suppose the last one I recall was at Sav's (Leppard bassist, Rick Savage). He's got a place in Dublin. It was very cool, but I left at 2am when a lot of people were just arriving. When you don't drink, you tend to leave before people start slobbering all over you.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • People
  • Drink
  • Boring

• Before we go on stage, all we really do is warm up usually... do some stretches, and drink something that makes you hyper like coke -- plenty, heaps and heaps of coke -- or just caffeine.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Stage
  • Drink
  • Coke