Pharrell Williams Quotes

You sort of have to become what you're wearing.

Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.

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• When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.

  

  Sam Robards
  • People
  • Door
  • Identity

• Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Know
  • Same

• The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Poet
  • Politician
  • Cultures

• In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Day
  • Best
  • Three

• A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Book
  • Half
  • Only

• I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Parents
  • Freedom

• Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Young
  • Hollywood
  • Eat

• Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • Good
  • Best

• Generally I'm wide open to people; I love helping them in any way I possibly can. But for me to invest, a business has to have a lot of creative scale; it has to be unique.

  

  J. Christopher Burch
  • People
  • Way
  • Unique

• And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • War
  • Socialism

• I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Inspiration
  • Bug

• In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you're no longer a fan. I don't root for the Dodgers, really. I just try to do the game as best I can. And the winning and the losing will take care of itself.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Game
  • Best
  • Winning

• You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Luck
  • Opportunities
  • Step

• When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Past
  • Nation
  • Landscape

• The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Want
  • Government
  • Goal

• People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Being
  • Barbie

• 'That's what Jagulars always do', said Pooh, much interested. 'They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Up
  • Help

• The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.

  

  Harold Rosenberg

• Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a backdrop of looming danger. Anne Fortier casts a new light on one of history's greatest stories of passion. I was swept away.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Passion
  • Danger
  • Novel

• As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Song

• Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do; listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.

  

  S. D Gordon
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Patience

• What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Job
  • Food
  • Cool

• You sort of have to become what you're wearing.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.