Leo McKern Quotes

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

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• It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'

  

  Tara Reid
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Me
  • Running
  • Idea

• Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Up
  • School
  • Company

• The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Done

• I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • She
  • Brave

• To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Different
  • Success
  • Measure

• The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Time
  • Wife
  • Baby

• I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't think I'll ever lose that; I'm always appreciative every day of the support I have as an artist, because I'm not a commercial artist.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Support
  • Day

• I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Like
  • Idea
  • Bird

• I have looked on the hills of the stormy North,And the larch has hung his tassels forth.

  

  Felicia Hemans

• The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Friends
  • Japanese

• The East would always present that calm face of faint astonishment, unmoved at the anger, not understanding the bitterness.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Understanding
  • Present
  • Calm

• And I remember what she said to meHow she swore that it never would endI remember how she held me oh so tightWish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

  

  Bob Seger
  • She
  • Remember

• Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • School
  • Black
  • Lonely

• I was very fortunate to have a wonderful woman as my voice coach when I started singing professionally. I was only 19, so now it's been 60 years!

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Singing

• I think the most pressing issue in our community is probably a generational divide.

  

  Bernice King
  • Community

• I signed with an acting agent first; I wasn't really interested in signing with a modeling agent. But that same day, they said, 'You should go over to Ford.'

  

  Emily Ratajkowski

• I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so I just felt like getting out of that. I thought, now, that I wanted to be a writer. I had something that I wanted to do, that I was interested in doing, so I wanted to pursue that.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Black
  • College
  • Crazy

• I know everything about candy. Would you believe I even know where to find gumballs in the middle of Africa?

  

  Dylan Lauren
  • Believe
  • Candy

• I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Good
  • Day
  • Cancer

• There's really nothing like a live audience right there. When you're in a bad show, you can hear the creaks in the chairs.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Live
  • Bad

• Any judicial nominee who has said that the Constitution means what it says, not what judges would like it to mean, is going to be called an 'extremist.' That person will be said to be 'out of the mainstream.' But the mainstream is itself the problem.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Problem
  • Mean
  • Judging

• I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

  

  Leo McKern