David Bianculli Quotes
Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are.
Quotes to Explore
-
Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
-
I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
-
It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
-
Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
-
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
-
My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
-
The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
-
French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
-
At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
-
I was a goody two shoes - a straight-A girl, and I took pride in my studies.
-
We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
-
It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
-
You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
-
I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
-
I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual.
-
I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
-
Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
-
In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
-
The question is, What type of human do I want to be? How do I want to use my platform? Do I want to be safe, under the umbrella of my white privilege? Or do I want to push back and resist?
-
My favorite is doing the television show, as a variety show, every week. If the show wasn't that great one week, we could always come back and apologize, you know?
-
You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.
-
Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.
-
No matter how successful you become... there's always that sense that you could be better.
-
Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are.
