Andrew Hozier-Byrne (Hozier) Quotes

There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'

Andrew Hozier-Byrne

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• The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Character
  • Way
  • Her

• Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Art
  • Nature

• I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Eyes
  • Makeup
  • Lipstick

• People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • People
  • Question
  • Supposed

• If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

  

  Larry Elder
  • America
  • Man
  • Dad

• As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.

  

  J. Smith-Cameron
  • Family
  • Child
  • Sister

• It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Lost

• Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Business
  • Never
  • Ugly

• More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Book
  • Serious
  • Effort

• Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • City

• 'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Me
  • Play
  • Language

• I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Space

• People don't say they're pregnant until the second trimester. I intellectually understand that you don't want the whole world to know your business, but at the same time, what does that mean? You don't tell your employers you're pregnant, but then when you miscarry, no one knows you miscarried. Miscarrying is a horrible, painful event.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• How vast a memory has Love!

  

  Alexander Pope

• The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit - a reputation, character.

  

  John D. Rockefeller
  • Important
  • Character

• It’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.

  

  Clayton M. Christensen
  • Time

• …the sudden rise of a religious movement in the West that restricts the eating of beef and thereby saves billions of tons of grain and provides a nourishing diet for the world as a whole.

  

  Alvin Toffler
  • World
  • Religious

• Don't go to the grave with life unused.

  

  Bobby Bowden
  • Life

• Injustice can never be stood for.

  

  Amber Heard

• I choose grey characters, as I enjoy playing a human character. I don't shy away from showing the shortcomings of my characters.

  

  Ashish Sharma
  • Character

• We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we're in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don't even appreciate the good situations. We're lazy. Or we're scared. Or we just don't notice.

  

  Pauline Collins
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Truth
  • Color
  • Needs

• So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Truth
  • Compassion
  • Afraid

• There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne