Antonio Porchia Quotes

He llegado a un paso de todo. Y aquí me quedo, lejos de todo, un paso.

Antonio Porchia

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• I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Different
  • Character
  • Myself

• Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Everything
  • I Can
  • Audition

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Public
  • Forgives

• I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Pretty
  • Point
  • Materials

• My problem is I can't show any of my movies to my daughters. It's tough. 'Beauty and the Beast'... they liked it. But that's the only one, really. Otherwise, they've always been dark or violent.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Problem
  • Dark
  • Beauty

• It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Best
  • End

• We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Trying
  • Thought
  • Accept

• The fans treated me royally.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Me
  • Fans
  • Treated

• When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Think
  • Winning
  • Start

• I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • People
  • Good
  • Interesting

• I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Nature
  • Think
  • More

• One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Best

• I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Known
  • Grave
  • Chief

• I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Political
  • Diplomat

• 'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It was, therefore, the sort of loveliness which is not perfect, but draws its charm from a measure of imbalance, which can accommodate flaws and make little of them, for a while at least.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Perfect

• It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Weird
  • Holiday
  • Friday

• Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst besitzt, / Hat auch Religion / Wer jene beiden nicht besitzt / Der habe Religion

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The very eagle, destined to soar so high and to see so far, begins his life in the fissures of the rocks, and in his early days only sees the arid and sometimes fetid borders of his eyry.

  

  Alphonse de Lamartine
  • Life
  • High

• Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

  

  John Milton
  • Words
  • Actions
  • Acts

• At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Feel

• The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Heart
  • Simple
  • Selfish

• He llegado a un paso de todo. Y aquí me quedo, lejos de todo, un paso.

  

  Antonio Porchia