Alan Davies Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
-
I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
-
You can never predict a hit or a flop, but it's about what you are happy doing as an actor. Every actor comes with his or her own mindset.
-
Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
-
Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
-
Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
-
I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
-
I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't around.
-
It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.
-
I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
-
I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.
-
It's such a delicate business, the structure of film, isn't it? What happens if a scene is not there but two minutes later? It's an eternal, never-ending search, actually, which is very exciting. It really is.
-
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
-
Every parent craves for a child, and once their wishes come true, they feel that it's not possible for them to love anyone more that the first born. But the fact is, after you have the second issue, the feeling is, how can I not love the kid?
-
Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
-
I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.
-
I could become a Gold Glove-caliber shortstop. Not as talented as Vizquel, but definitely on par with Jeter.
-
I have not lived, but only dreamed about living.
-
Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.
-
'It became like a symbolic thing, to be 'an artist.' After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.'
-
No two people who make a movie on a certain budget scale are going to achieve the same thing because it just depends on what sort of favors you can call, and what sort of dynamics you can pull in the play.
-
There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
-
I was hugely disappointed that 'Whites' was cancelled.
