Barry Sonnenfeld Quotes

Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.

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• When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Work
  • Free
  • Resume

• I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • People
  • Women
  • She

• I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Guy
  • Like
  • Needs

• Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Law
  • Desire

• As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Time
  • World
  • Growing

• The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.

  

  Vanessa Ferrari
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Car

• When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Same
  • Walk

• In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Work
  • Smart
  • Profound

• I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Change
  • Red
  • Envy

• In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Child
  • Model
  • Information

• In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Work
  • Creativity

• In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Play
  • Mom
  • Hollywood

• Drama starts where logic ends.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Drama
  • Logic
  • Where

• I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Beautiful
  • Strong
  • Language

• Most actors and actresses are performative as people.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Most

• One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Today
  • Rest
  • Youth

• With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Good
  • Money
  • Focus

• I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Up
  • Live
  • Free

• My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind – I've always loved it.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Time
  • Good
  • Dad

• You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Love
  • Sometimes
  • For Her

• If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.

  

  Tablo
  • Good
  • Song
  • Will

• Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Terrible
  • Vices
  • Cowardice

• Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
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