Bennett Miller Quotes

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

Bennett Miller

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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

• I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Experience
  • Actor
  • More

• Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Enjoy

• Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

  

  Quintilian
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Everything

• I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Rest
  • Frustration

• I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Kind
  • Working
  • Busy

• Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Gold
  • Most
  • Even

• There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Independent
  • Intellectual

• Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Past
  • Amazing
  • Moving

• Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Think
  • Wrong
  • Old

• The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Find

• The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Character
  • Morning
  • Voice

• India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Model
  • Shadow
  • Development

• I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Real
  • Moments
  • Sadness

• Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Music
  • Important

• Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Music
  • American
  • Wind

• Once you've achieved success, and you're making decisions that are working, I don't understand why anyone would be second-guessing themselves.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Why
  • Success

• I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

  

  Kenneth More
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Great
  • Wife

• Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• It is when I am convinced about my character that I can do justice to that role.

  

  Dulquer Salmaan
  • Character
  • Justice

• I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

  

  Bennett Miller