Bennett Miller Quotes

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

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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

• I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Good
  • Like
  • Body

• 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

• I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Myself
  • Better
  • Need

• One of my favorite times of year is around Christmas when my entire family gets together and we make tamales together. It's a full two-day event, and we create an assembly line. It's awesome because everyone has his or her own part in making the dish. It's so much fun.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Family
  • Together
  • Fun

• 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

• Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Play

• 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

• If you stand for something you will have people for you and people against you. But if you stand for nothing you will have nobody for you and nobody against you.

  

  Maurice Saatchi
  • People

• There are Arab countries providing arms I don't know who they are, nobody comes and tells you 'we are providing arms', but what I say is providing arms and ammunition started with certain countries, I'll name them: Russia and Iran to Syria, so it's normal the other side will seek help .... The last resolution adopted less than three weeks ago said all assistance [to the opposition fighters], all assistance including military, it was added.

  

  Nabil Elaraby
  • Country
  • Military
  • Russia

• I have a theory that there's almost this primal viewpoint on women in the business, that once you're beyond childbearing age, you are perceived as nonthreatening, nonsexual, noncastable. Sure, I already knew it before I got into it. I just didn't know I'd end up making my living from low-budget, independent films.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Up
  • Women
  • Business

• Our most successful leaders are people who put other people first … in the long run, that’s exactly what makes them successful.

  

  Blake Roney
  • People
  • Success
  • Leaders

• I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.

  

  Cecily McMillan
  • Needs
  • Order
  • Duty

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

  

  Bennett Miller