Anton du Beke Quotes

'Strictly' is a bit like scoring the winning goal in the FA Cup Final or sinking the final putt in the Ryder Cup - only a few people get the opportunity to do it, and they have got to be famous.

Anton du Beke

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• Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Interesting
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • You

• It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Remember
  • Stars
  • Privilege

• Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.

  

  Dane Bird-Smith
  • Training
  • Conditions
  • Racing

• In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.

  

  Barret Oliver
  • Time
  • Death
  • Stop

• There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • World
  • Doors
  • Opening

• Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Friends
  • Need
  • Youth

• To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Job
  • Security
  • Honest

• I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.

  

  Edmund White
  • Career
  • You
  • Benefits

• I want to have an impact on my son.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Son
  • Impact

• I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Work
  • Think
  • Relationship

• Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Start

• The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Believe
  • Sustainability

• To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Time
  • Care

• There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Friends
  • Laugh
  • Fair

• As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Fashion

• Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Believe
  • Game
  • Hockey

• It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work.

  

  Delta Burke
  • People
  • Work
  • Star

• I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.

  

  William Gibson
  • People
  • Friend
  • Progress

• I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Stupid

• There's a general understanding amongst, I think, most people in this country that whether or not you have a preexisting condition, it's not your fault, and you shouldn't be discriminated against in healthcare policy.

  

  Steve Scalise
  • Health care
  • Condition
  • Discriminated

• The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• 'Strictly' is a bit like scoring the winning goal in the FA Cup Final or sinking the final putt in the Ryder Cup - only a few people get the opportunity to do it, and they have got to be famous.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Winning