Lina Wertmuller Quotes
I've always been an angel. Sometimes I transform into a witch only because the filmmaking demands it.
Quotes to Explore
-
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
-
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
-
I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
-
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
-
It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
-
Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
-
The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
-
I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
-
It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
-
We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
-
The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
-
I think, for me, winning opens doors to all types of shapes and sizes and genres to come on the show and kill it. I'm probably the antithesis of what American Idols have been.
-
The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
-
Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.
-
My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.
-
That is why we wholeheartedly support the American-led effort to free the people of Iraq. And though we are a small country with a small military, we are proud to stand side by side with our allies in the fight to end the reign of terror in Baghdad.
-
It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.
-
Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.
-
I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't light anything. I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn't have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me and £5 worth of film in my pocket or maybe it was only £2 in those days.
-
I'm still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It's not very easy to find them these days.
-
Rouse the lion from his lair.
-
What I immediately recognized about Wall Street in 1983 was that it was a continuation of my career in theater. Wall Street is a big theater, and it's all illusions.
-
She's here with her girlfriend. She's half a man.
-
I've always been an angel. Sometimes I transform into a witch only because the filmmaking demands it.
