Alan Bates Quotes

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.

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• The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
  • You
  • Events

• I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Star
  • Big

• My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Money
  • Lost
  • City

• Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Chance
  • Note
  • Seldom

• I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Up
  • Done
  • Know

• People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Love
  • Food

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Shadows

• Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Military

• I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Actress

• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Never
  • Independent
  • Fruit

• None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Kids
  • Together

• If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Future
  • Me
  • Journalism

• If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • People
  • Real
  • Control

• You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.

  

  Ted Baillieu
  • You
  • More
  • Build

• Everyone dreams of living in Paris.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dreams
  • Paris
  • Everyone

• I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Music
  • Me
  • Decisions

• It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Career
  • Doing
  • Angels

• There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Good
  • Great
  • Women

• The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Question

• If someone gives you a belt buckle, it's like a piece of jewelry. It has the same sort of emotional significance. It would be something you would intend to keep forever.

  

  Lyle Lovett
  • Forever
  • Emotional
  • Jewelry

• I am very fussy; I am very detailed; I nag a lot. So in a sense, I am like Mr. Ping. I am temperamental, I am emotional, I'm fussy, and I'm very exact. And I want people to not fail; I want them to execute - all those things Mr. Ping wants in other people. Or animals.

  

  James Hong
  • People
  • Emotional

• People know who I am. I have less ability to be intimidated, in a sense, than others coming up.

  

  Jon Voight
  • People
  • Up

• An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.

  

  Alan Bates
  • Emotional