August Strindberg Quotes

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

August Strindberg

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• I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Family
  • Business
  • American

• I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • High
  • Never
  • Kid

• Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Politics

• With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Different
  • Team

• Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Mirror
  • Face
  • Once

• The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Political

• It's nice to see different dimensions of a character. A love interest and family life are always, I think, important in creating layers and textures.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Mind
  • Same
  • Spring

• I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

  

  Edmund White
  • Good
  • American
  • Writer

• I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Opinion

• I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Afraid
  • Anything
  • On-screen

• I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Beautiful
  • Person
  • Shinier

• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Something
  • Memorial
  • Online

• People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Think
  • Pride
  • Fat

• When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • World
  • Rest
  • New York

• Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Life
  • Thoughts
  • Result

• I don't know, it's very difficult if you're in a strange country to just barge in and say, "Hello, I'm Warren MacKenzie, and aren't you happy to have me as a guest," you know? But artists did accept us and we remained friends for many, many years, many of them as long as they lived; like Lucie Rie and Hans Coper were very good friends, and it was wonderful.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Long
  • Country
  • Artist

• I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • Art
  • Remember

• You really see life around the principals to be as important as the main, principal actors. That's what cinéma vérité taught me - that it's not a question of having a main character, a great actor, and the rest is unimportant. Every detail, every face in the crowd is important.

  

  Milos Forman
  • Important
  • Character
  • Unimportant

• We prioritize access to guns to such a degree that we are traumatizing an entire generation of children.

  

  Peter Paige
  • Children
  • Guns
  • Access

• I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Talent
  • Writer
  • Photographer