Lena Olin Quotes
To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'Lena Olin
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso -
I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
Val McDermid -
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
Daisaku Ikeda -
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
Walter Scott -
I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
Naomie Harris -
It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
Laura Linney
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
Jack Dempsey -
Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
Hamza Yusuf -
I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
Vera Wang -
A man's kiss is his signature.
Mae West -
You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
Vanessa Williams -
I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
Sam Neill
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
Vagit Alekperov -
I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.
Indira Gandhi -
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Goldsmith -
People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
Kate Winslet -
I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough!
Kajol
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I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves.
Charles Spurgeon -
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
Anthony Trollope -
She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.
Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys -
Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.
Lauren Hutton -
If we had said 30 years ago that we were going to have only two incidents with casualties, we would have thought, 'Boy, that's great. To me, that indicates that the program has really exceeded what the early expectations were.
Alan Shepard -
To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'
Lena Olin