Alexandra Cassavetes Quotes

My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.

Alexandra Cassavetes

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• He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Dog
  • Mirror
  • Humble

• The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Pretty
  • Lost
  • Lose

• I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty to play and mould the character in accordance to the director's mindset.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Done
  • Character
  • Theatre

• I walked out of 'Harry and the Hendersons.' Harry bugged me; I don't know. Yeah, it's weird because I think Sasquatches are great, but not then. Maybe not that weekend - I don't know. I don't know what it was.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Great
  • Know
  • Me

• I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Believe
  • Men

• I pretty much move around wherever I like.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Wherever

• The game is meant to be fun.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Meant To Be

• A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • She
  • Pretty

• I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari Graynor from 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' and 'American Crime.' I think it is an exciting time for young women in this industry. I am excited to make my own path.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • Women
  • Wonderful

• If you don't know someone who's had a problem with addiction, you will.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Know
  • Problem
  • Addiction

• When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • Important
  • Voice

• Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

  

  Olivier Sarkozy
  • Problem
  • Fool
  • Debt

• In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

  

  Kate Adie
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Propaganda

• Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Poetry
  • End
  • Irish

• I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Game

• The problem of establishing a perfect civic constitution is dependent upon the problem of a lawful external relation among states and cannot be solved without a solution of the latter problem.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Perfect

• If man were not free, then he could not conceive of causality at all, and could not form any concept of it. Insight into lawfulness is already freedom from it.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Free
  • Freedom

• German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve, bring up their young players, who have character.

  

  Franz Beckenbauer
  • Up
  • Character
  • Football

• Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There's a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Trying
  • Relationship
  • Helping

• Throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.

  

  Nancy Etcoff
  • History
  • Bodies
  • Painted

• It is the experience of the speed of a plane, which was looking for an expression, a form and this caused the plane to come into existence. The plane was not built to take letters from Berlin to Moscow, but to give expression to the irresistible urge to create a form for the experience of speed.

  

  Kazimir Malevich
  • Experience

• If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Believe
  • Heaven

• My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.

  

  Alexandra Cassavetes