Declan Donnellan Quotes
For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.
Quotes to Explore
-
People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
-
Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
-
My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
-
Obamacare was passed months before my first day at Komen.
-
I'll be kicked out before I rust out.
-
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
-
Well, my brother started acting before I did.
-
I'd been in love before - I was always in love.
-
I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.
-
If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.
-
I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.
-
Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
-
There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
-
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
-
Before I discovered moviemaking, I hadn't found anything where I could kind of galvanize or meld all of the things that I wanted to do.
-
Change before you have to.
-
Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games.
-
I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?
-
War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.
-
If you told me to choose between family and football, then it is no choice. I take family, of course, like everyone. But I prefer to keep it private, and that's it. I just focus on the football.
-
I'm not a fatalist. I'm not a religious person. I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.
-
The wise are above books.
-
I was the class innuendist.
-
For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.
