Marco Zanini Quotes

A Schiaparelli woman is not about cliche.

Marco Zanini

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• In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Live
  • Death

• If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Parents
  • Years
  • Presence

• I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Play

• I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
  • Theater
  • Direct

• Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Science
  • Opinion
  • Mathematics

• Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Mind
  • Stress
  • Impossible

• It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Job
  • Actor
  • Director

• I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Want
  • Die
  • Identity

• I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Up
  • God
  • Man

• Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Heard

• I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Law
  • Laugh
  • Cut

• I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Me
  • Serious

• The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • People
  • Real
  • Yourself

• I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Feel
  • Young
  • Jobs

• I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

  

  Iain Glen
  • People
  • Actor
  • Finding

• Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Journey
  • Challenges

• It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature - that is the true carnival!

  

  Karen Blixen
  • True
  • Silly

• I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe - 'That government is best which governs not at all'; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Men

• They just talk drivel. Whoever is winning is great, whoever isn't, isn't. It's banal. And also semi-literate at times ... they never criticise in an intelligent way. Anything that isn't banal is said to be an outburst. They've created this cartoon world where everyone talks like Lineker and says nothing.

  

  Eamon Dunphy
  • World
  • Great
  • Winning

• Music is a good way to channel your fragile, vulnerable, needy side, but it's also something to rejoice in.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Good
  • Music

• Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.

  

  Placido Domingo

• Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.

  

  Anne Grant
  • World
  • Journey
  • Grief

• A Schiaparelli woman is not about cliche.

  

  Marco Zanini