Andrea Arnold Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.
-
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
-
I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
-
My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
-
In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
-
I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
-
Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
-
I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
-
I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
-
How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
-
The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
-
Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
-
The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
-
I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
-
If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
-
I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
-
There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.
-
In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
-
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.
-
Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
-
I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
-
A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'
-
Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it's turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.
-
As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.
