Agnes Varda Quotes
I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not.
Quotes to Explore
-
People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
-
Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.
-
Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
-
I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'
-
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
-
It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
-
People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
-
As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
-
I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
-
I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
-
The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.
-
I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.
-
Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
-
In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
-
What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
-
It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
-
People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
-
Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
-
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
-
If I'm playing a gig in London, it feels so important. The adrenaline rush here is bigger than anywhere else. I kind of like the pressure that London puts you under.
-
Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.
-
I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.
-
Gratitude is one of the greatest gifts we can give. And it's not a gift we often give to children. We expect it of them, but we don't necessarily give it back.
-
I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not.
