Alain Resnais Quotes

I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.

Alain Resnais

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• I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Love
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Me
  • Actress
  • Stereotype

• My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Philosophy
  • District
  • Fits

• Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • People
  • Hero
  • Guitar

• Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Game

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Men
  • Fear

• It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.

  

  Zane Grey
  • New
  • Year
  • Decent

• A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Brain

• I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'

  

  Samm Levine
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I think it's our job to create a culture and an environment where a gay player knows he is safe and welcome. If and when that happens, believe me - that person will have the full support of the commissioner's office.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Culture

• But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Me
  • Young
  • Influence

• I want to fall in love, I think. I've never. I know. Everyone I know's been in love or in relationships now and... There's only ever been... there's been people telling me they love me, but it freaks me out and I just run, run. I think I'm a bad girlfriend.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• When you're thinking about building your own online dating profile, especially on OkCupid, you should go through the same steps you're thinking about when you're going out to meet someone new. You want to put your best foot forward.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Same

• I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Life
  • Good
  • Why

• But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Work
  • Me
  • Person

• I've done a bunch of consulting; I've actually spent time in Singapore, England, Denmark, all over.

  

  David Cohen
  • Time
  • Done

• Because we didn't cooperate with China, we gave them motivation to develop their own capability. You know, they developed a very capable rocket system, very capable spacecraft. And if we don't cooperate with them in the future, they're going to develop more capable systems. If we're working together on a highly visible project, there is going to be much less, or there is going to be motivation for each country to not get into a conflict or any kind of tension in the military sense.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Country
  • Together
  • Future

• I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].

  

  Philip Glass
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Mistake

• Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Want
  • Change
  • Photography

• The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.

  

  Amanda Ripley
  • Public
  • Events
  • Discounts

• I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.

  

  Alain Resnais