Bennett Miller Quotes

It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.

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• I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Style
  • Now
  • Doctor

• There are programs that don't work.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Work
  • Programs

• I'm always up for going back to the stage.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Up
  • Stage
  • Back

• The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • Enough
  • Talking

• The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Star

• He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Play
  • Him
  • Phone

• Every single day I'm shocked.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Single
  • Day
  • Every

• I want you to like me, but I don't care if you don't.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Want
  • Me
  • Like

• Here's how it goes: I'm up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then it's lunchtime. Then maybe a little nap after lunch and out to the gym, and before I know it, it's time to have a drink.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Up
  • Time
  • Gym

• Over a year's time, I felt like I squeezed in five years of touring experience, which was a really huge help moving forward.

  

  Washed Out
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Help

• People have this impression that I'm a little kooky, but I'm actually very OCD. I love order and organization. I'm a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks, and it's hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list. Now that's OCD.

  

  Kate Spade
  • People
  • Organization
  • Start

• Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Hungry people are always looking for more. More things to do. More to learn. More responsibility to take on.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Responsibility

• Maybe in the future, you'll be able to understand what I'm saying. I'm going more for an atmospheric vibe in my songs. And I really don't want to ruin the illusions people may create for themselves.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • May
  • Future

• It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • May
  • Friend
  • Folly

• I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Writing
  • Power
  • Star

• I've never been a great one for technology.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Never

• I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • School
  • Day
  • Myself

• So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?

  

  Dennis Chavez
  • Practice

• The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • Country
  • War

• I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Losing
  • Only
  • Sting

• China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.

  

  Dominique de Villepin
  • Why
  • America
  • Chinese

• I was lucky enough to have made a tonne of mistakes and be kind of frustrated. I was working in the movies for 15 years before I did 'Paranormal Activity,' so I was lucky enough to have that experience. So instead of trying to make, like, 'Godzilla' after 'Paranormal Activity,' I said, 'Let's keep making inexpensive movies.'

  

  Jason Blum
  • Trying
  • Experience

• It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.

  

  Bennett Miller