Asa Butterfield Quotes

Whilst I've got these opportunities, and whilst I still love doing it, acting is something I can see myself continuing forever until I get bored of it.

Asa Butterfield

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• I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Important
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Break
  • Roles
  • Pictures

• I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

  

  Feist
  • True
  • Know
  • Situation

• I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Sports
  • Soccer

• I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

  

  Oliver North
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Think

• My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • School
  • Parents
  • Me

• I did anything that would get me on the air.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Me
  • Air
  • Get

• My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Eye

• I graduated from the University of Whatever.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • University
  • Graduation

• My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.

  

  B. B. King
  • God
  • Truth
  • Eyes

• As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Early
  • 20th Century

• When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Music
  • She

• I think the big thing is you really have one chance to do this... to play hockey for a living, you have one chance at your career, and you have to take full advantage of it.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Think
  • Career
  • Chance

• Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Smart

• I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • House
  • Never
  • Someone

• I like tough relationships. I think relationships with conflict are good for you - you learn. But you can't listen too much. I have a strong point of view, and it's important that I fight for my ideas.

  

  Frida Giannini
  • Good
  • Important
  • Strong

• I'm ducked the fuck down while I'm writin this rhyme, cause I'm probably gonna get struck with lightning this time.

  

  Eminem
  • Time

• I definitely think the way the game is transforming, becoming more and more athletic, guys are great athletes out here and relying on the physical skills more than their tennis skills, almost, sometimes. So for that reason, matching up with some of these guys, I can't keep up.

  

  Daniel Nestor
  • Up
  • Great
  • Game

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• In like a dimwit, out like a light.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Light
  • Like
  • Out

• Whilst I've got these opportunities, and whilst I still love doing it, acting is something I can see myself continuing forever until I get bored of it.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Forever
  • Bored