Beau Willimon Quotes
The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
Quotes to Explore
-
In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
-
It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
-
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
-
I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
-
When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
-
If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
-
I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!
-
The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
-
The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
-
We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.
-
You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
-
When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
-
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
-
I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
-
We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.
-
Theater will cast in a more open way; Denzel Washington might play Richard III. Television and film don't really cast openly like that. The theater world has always been a leader in diversity.
-
It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.
-
I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
-
Tom is back on a flight at 6:15 P.M. That is 6:15. Do you get it? Not 6:00 P.M. but 6:15 P.M. And do you know how many minutes that is? I do. I have also become a Time Lord.
-
I worked very hard to be a diva. But it never worked.
-
I think I feel my best - I really feel the fountain of youth is inside, not out - when I'm just surrounded with love, when I'm with my family and we're all having a wonderful time together. There's nothing greater than your family surrounding you.
-
Often, female characters are quite one dimensional, especially in a two hour film; television gives characters room to breathe and develop.
-
We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.
-
The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
