Irina Shayk Quotes
At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
Quotes to Explore
-
Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
-
I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
-
I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
-
I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.
-
When I write a movie, I write it for me.
-
I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
-
As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
-
Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
-
I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
-
R. C. Buford has been a huge help to me with his support.
-
When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I was excited by the idea of sharing my story through this unique channel and helping young, inspiring writers do the same.
-
To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.
-
I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
-
Everyone at a party is uncomfortable. Knowing that makes me more comfortable.
-
I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
-
I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
-
I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
-
I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
-
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
-
My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion.
-
There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.
-
I want to do stories that inspire people.
-
What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.
-
At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
