Louise Bourgeois Quotes
I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.
Quotes to Explore
-
You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
-
I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
-
If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
-
Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
-
Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
-
I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
-
We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
-
It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
-
If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
-
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
-
I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
-
I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
-
I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
-
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
-
If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
-
Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
-
My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.
-
Their practice habits are terrific. I've been around some really good guys from different teams in terms of bringing it to practice. When I was in San Francisco, Bryant Young was that way. Every practice on it.
-
I got sick of trying everything. I tried every single thing imaginable - diet, exercise. I even bought a house on the health spa property, and I still gained weight.
-
You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
-
As an actor, I think it is important you at least almost like the character that you're playing. Or can find a personal justification for the character as to why they're doing what they're doing.
-
I grew up in a deeply Catholic home. Our parents always encouraged us to march to our own drums, though, so some of us are still Catholic and some are not. That's always going to be a part of me though; little bits of it trickle into my work. Whether it's an embrace or a rejection, I'm not always sure, but I can't avoid it.
-
I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.
