Edward Norton Quotes

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

Edward Norton

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• Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something you're going to live in. It must be comfortable and suit all your needs.

  

  Edith Head
  • Live
  • Home
  • Building

• I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • You
  • Understanding
  • Edgy

• I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Party
  • Right
  • System

• Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Different
  • Country
  • Moving

• I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • God
  • Writing
  • Why

• Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Love
  • Identity

• I love to sing. I also had a band during my college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. If not an actor, I would have become a singer. I am very passionate about work. I am a fitness freak: I go to gym before doing my shoot. I also do yoga.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Sing

• I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Remember
  • Care

• It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Present
  • Ego
  • Point

• The majority of my work is about preparation.

  

  Taryn Simon
  • Work
  • Preparation
  • Majority

• A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Democracy
  • Practice
  • Forced

• I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Myself
  • See
  • Nothing

• I find the big bang, really quite fascinating. I mean, here you have all these highfalutin scientists and they’re saying it was this gigantic explosion and everything came into perfect order.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Perfect

• In Paris one is too preoccupied by what one sees and what one hears, however strong one is; what I am doing here has, I think, the merit of not resembling anyone, because it is simply the expression of what I myself have experienced.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Strong
  • Paris

• The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

  

  Leo Buscaglia

• When you think of Canada, you think of hockey and you think of Wayne Gretzky.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Hockey

• This body, the United States Congress, was united, Republicans and Democrats alike, in taking that action, toppling the Taliban government, and working to try and root out al Qaeda and find Osama bin Laden.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • Action

• The two of us with a very strong, peaceful expression, hand in hand, on the edge within a semicircle sea, lit be Bengal fire, water-tower, mountains, lightning and moon.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Strong
  • Expression
  • Peaceful

• But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Link

• When you're dealing with a very sick person and you're doing something to them, an intervention, be it a procedure or a medication, safety is critical.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Sick
  • Safety

• As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words.

  

  Betty Edwards
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Reality

• Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Memories
  • Historian
  • Leap

• I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

  

  Edward Norton