Alfred Molina Quotes

I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.

Alfred Molina

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• The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Plant
  • Celebration

• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Fly
  • Possible
  • Robots

• Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Mean
  • Fighting
  • Meaning

• I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Lifestyle

• Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Small
  • Change

• We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Doing
  • More
  • Aggressive

• It sounds weird when you complain about having to eat so much, but it's like a job.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Job
  • You
  • Weird

• The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Good
  • Work
  • Reading

• With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Trying
  • Crazy
  • Humor

• We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • Question
  • Technology
  • Need

• Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Fun
  • You
  • Group

• Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.

  

  Iman
  • Life
  • Short
  • Pasta

• I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Think
  • Gold
  • Clever

• I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

  

  Carl J. Lindner, Jr.
  • Working
  • Week
  • Hours

• 'Orientalism' has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of view and always see things from different perspective.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Different
  • Knowledge
  • Question

• Black liner around the eye makes your eyes look smaller. I think you should reassess, if you're a really big black liner user, maybe even just doing the top line, not lower, or try a brown or a plum or even a navy.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Black
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• I literally couldn't get anyone to hire me. Having a woman do sports was seen as too risky.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Sports

• The increase in brain size and refinement of stone artifacts point to an unbroken advance in mental ability over the last two or three million years. ...No organ in the history of life has grown faster.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • History
  • Brain

• It's a relentless regime with 'Misfits.' I'm actually a little bit nervous of it, because I know it's going to be so tough to film, but we have a good crack at it.

  

  Joe Gilgun
  • Good

• You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Responsible

• Magnetic current is the same as electric current. Current is [actually] the wrong expression. Really it is not one current, they are two currents, one current is composed of North Pole individual magnets in concentrated streams and the other is composed of South Pole individual magnets in concentrated streams, and they are are running one stream against the other stream in whirling, screwlike fashion, and with high speed.

  

  Edward Leedskalnin
  • Current
  • Magnet
  • Pole

• Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • People
  • Slave
  • Labor

• I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.

  

  Alfred Molina