Alex Pettyfer Quotes

I remember reading 'Disturbia,' one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go 'Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?'

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• You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • World
  • You
  • Economy

• Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Thoughts
  • Negative
  • Internal

• There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Like
  • Step
  • Napoleon

• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Why
  • Poverty

• They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Group
  • Illness
  • Improve

• I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Time
  • House
  • Man

• To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Luck
  • Soldier
  • Skill

• The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Time
  • Red
  • First

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Start

• You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?

  

  Ian McShane
  • Why
  • She
  • Want

• We acquire the strength we have overcome.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Strength
  • Overcome
  • Acquire

• If everything is the same, nothing is special.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Same
  • Nothing
  • Special

• It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Life
  • Motto
  • Be Yourself

• I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Character
  • Hair

• I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Chemistry
  • Almost
  • Algebra

• I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Up
  • Different
  • Real

• It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Book
  • House
  • Beautiful

• If I hadn't lost it, there never would have been the national effort to get it back in Fremantle, and without that there never would have been the ticker-tape parade up Fifth Avenue in New York, lunch with the president at the White House and all the doors of opportunity that it opened,

  

  Dennis Conner
  • Up
  • House
  • Opportunity

• I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.

  

  Adelbert von Chamisso
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Wife

• I am proudest of that first novel, 'Trust,' of anything I have written. I don't think I've had such intense energy since.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Energy
  • Trust

• I remember reading 'Disturbia,' one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go 'Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?'

  

  Alex Pettyfer
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Guy