Adeel Akhtar Quotes

'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try and make people laugh rather than being a serious thing.

Adeel Akhtar

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• I grew up in a very large, poor family.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Poor

• It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.

  

  Campbell Newman
  • Want
  • Example
  • Tax

• I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Me
  • Will
  • Big

• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • People
  • Thought
  • Villain

• I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Write
  • Interest
  • Watch

• I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Age
  • Young
  • Vacuum

• So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Money
  • Want
  • Well

• The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Life
  • Important
  • Player

• Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Racism
  • Excellence

• Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Free
  • Care

• Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Same
  • Makeup
  • Inside

• I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Said
  • Genius
  • Hollywood

• Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Why
  • Decision

• I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Children
  • Free
  • Dark

• I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Song
  • Fire
  • Red

• What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Pain
  • Healing

• There's a burden of responsibility for me to show up correct - in my head, if I don't do it right, then I'll get shut out, and then other trans women of color will be shut out.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Up
  • Women
  • Responsibility

• Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Moving
  • Decision
  • Car

• I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing with people's lives.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • People
  • Believe
  • Business

• I conduct myself as if I am a spaceman in Hollywood. I don't want to do anything fancy. I don't want people to send me free clothes. I just want to be grateful for this craft they let me do.

  

  Jimmi Simpson
  • People
  • Free

• I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them. It's not just about admiration for their films, it's how they deal with you, and whether they get you or the way you work. If they don't, you better adjust your way of working to suit them. I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate. As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • People
  • Character
  • Giving

• 'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try and make people laugh rather than being a serious thing.

  

  Adeel Akhtar
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Serious