Andre Maurois Quotes

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Andre Maurois

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Trust

• I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Confidence
  • Deep

• I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Voice
  • Loved

• That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Day

• Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Children
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Acting

• I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Value
  • Exercise
  • Tired

• If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Like
  • Bored
  • Characters

• The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Done

• I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Song
  • Feeling
  • Day

• I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Important
  • Why
  • Always

• Guys are so visual.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Guys
  • Visual

• Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Mother
  • Way
  • Negative

• I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Politics
  • Information
  • Ideal

• It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Sea
  • River

• It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is 'lighter than vanity.'

  

  Vanity

• Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

  

  Homer
  • Men
  • Honor
  • Songs

• You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving.

  

  Fred Rogers
  • Help
  • Loved
  • Lovable

• I was sent to boarding school at the age of ten. I think Mummy was trying to protect me in her own way, trying to spare me living through the day-to-day reality of her illness.

  

  Lysette Anthony
  • Trying
  • School
  • Age

• You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

  

  Lesley Gore
  • World
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Nothing
  • Compass
  • Bad Men

• No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

  

  Andre Maurois