Lee Hall Quotes
In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.
Quotes to Explore
-
I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
-
When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
-
It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
-
Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
-
I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
-
Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
-
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
-
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
-
Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
-
We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
-
Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
-
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
-
I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
-
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
-
I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
-
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
-
VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.
-
Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
-
'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
-
So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.
-
You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
-
The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.
-
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.
-
In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.
