Patrice Leconte Quotes

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

Patrice Leconte

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• My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Together
  • Fire
  • Athlete

• I loved the world of imagination.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Loved

• We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Great
  • Change
  • Years

• I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Marriage
  • Will
  • Stand

• As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Great
  • Different
  • Revolution

• I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Republican
  • Definition
  • Bush

• I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Edgy
  • Dressed
  • Mixed

• Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Nature
  • Political

• I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The Aussie crowd, I'm really proud of them, the way they conducted themselves. You know they're great losers, as well.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Great
  • Know
  • Proud

• Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Help
  • Think
  • Tough

• I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Important
  • Family
  • Giving

• If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • People
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Me
  • Poetry
  • Comes

• Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Long
  • Influence
  • Demons

• The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Person
  • Period
  • Three

• If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Heart
  • Want
  • You

• I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Humanity

• The FCC should obviously not propose bad rules that will be struck down; it should propose good rules that will be upheld.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Good
  • Bad

• On a really good day, if I'm really trying, in the morning I'll have a piece of toast, vitamins and nuts, or a bagel with a little cream cheese. Then at lunch time, I'll get me one of those Chinese chicken salads, a glass of juice, and a big glass of water.

  

  Jo Marie Payton
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back as well and use that spotlight to shine, or at least to balance that light and to try to shine light onto the other issues that were happening in the world.

  

  Serinda Swan
  • World
  • Trying
  • Giving

• Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Trying
  • Working
  • VIolin