Asia Argento Quotes

I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.

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• At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

  

  Karen Bender
  • People
  • Thought
  • Weird

• I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Feel
  • Pressure
  • Emotions

• Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Children
  • Family
  • Free

• It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Money
  • Independent
  • Easy

• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • Best
  • Doing

• At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Win
  • Turn

• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Character
  • You
  • Look

• When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Government

• When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Die
  • Day
  • Myself

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Power
  • Devil
  • Empathy

• You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.

  

  M.I.A.
  • America
  • You
  • Years

• I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Water
  • Find
  • Concrete

• Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Opinion
  • Assumptions

• You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • She
  • Think

• When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Up
  • Country
  • Small

• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Me
  • Fool
  • Shame

• The more you spend time with a character, the more you see different nuances of that character.

  

  Seth Gabel
  • Different
  • Character
  • Nuance

• I need a SUV, for me and my four sisters. So, I've narrowed it down to four, kind of expensive, cars.

  

  Alexa Vega

• Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Movies

• Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Life
  • Death
  • Faith

• I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.

  

  Asia Argento
  • Life
  • Work
  • House