Alan J. Pakula Quotes

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

Alan J. Pakula

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• Injuries are a huge thing for skating. I think skating is a very unnatural sport for the body, very tough on the joints.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Body
  • Tough
  • Skating

• His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Nice

• Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • History
  • Growth
  • Famous

• Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Strong
  • Peace
  • Election

• I never thought I would actually become a professional actor. I just kept going with it. One thing led to another.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Professional

• I love that I love my job, and from what I'm told, that others who I work with do, too.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Job
  • Others

• Ferrari or Lamborghini. Never fancied one of those – too flash for me. I don't really like seeking too much attention.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Attention
  • Never
  • Flash

• Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • People
  • Love
  • Think

• If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Late
  • Slow

• I like being the center of attention. I want to be in the limelight, basically.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Want
  • Attention
  • Like

• The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Learn
  • Start
  • Piano

• Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.

  

  Natasha Hamilton
  • Time
  • Better
  • Confident

• I don't really know how to work a camera.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Work
  • Know
  • Camera

• Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.

  

  Larry King
  • Helping
  • Television
  • Radio

• House of the Dead 2 I gave away. Alone in the Dark 2 I will also not do; even if the DVD movie made money. BloodRayne 2 in the Wild West is what I really want to do.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Money
  • Movie
  • House

• Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything.

  

  Hillary Clinton

• I'm willing to put my body on the line and stuff like that, just to get a taste of that greatness.

  

  Jason Day
  • Greatness

• What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find the knowledge you are seeking. And you make unexpected discoveries;it was a Marxist professor who introduced me to the work of Cardinal Newman, a great master of English prose as well as theology.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Work
  • Great
  • High

• The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Universe
  • Self-Organizing
  • Self-Correcting

• "Okay," I said,hoping I sounded confident, like taking the life force out of ghouls was one of my favorite hobbies, right up there with knitting and sudoku.

  

  Rachel Hawkins
  • Life
  • Up
  • Knitting

• I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery in a much shorter time frame than actors. But I do think the networks have to protect themselves. s

  

  Jorja Fox
  • Opportunity
  • Actors
  • Protect

• Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

  

  Alan J. Pakula