Claire Denis Quotes

My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it.

Claire Denis

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• Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Up
  • Love
  • Door

• I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Night
  • City
  • Lights

• People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Men
  • Play

• Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • Men
  • Man

• Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Lonely

• Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Power

• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Problem
  • Color
  • Line

• Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Mentor

• I love comic books and I love anime.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Love
  • Books
  • Comic

• You've got to be realistic.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • You
  • Got
  • Realistic

• The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Family
  • Problem

• The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Humility
  • Clever
  • Size

• North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Humanity
  • Cuba

• Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.

  

  Barbara Block
  • Remember
  • Strong
  • Physics

• Mainly it's the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. A lot of them turn up and they know everything about me. They say: 'You scored 346 goals' or 'You wore the No9 shirt for Liverpool.'

  

  Ian Rush
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.

  

  Yves Montand
  • Believe
  • Sheep
  • Wolves

• I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

  

  Omar Epps
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• Letter to Hitler, quoted in Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm:

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Storm

• Life is hard, you know. If I can give someone on the radio three minutes to make them feel happier, that's a cool thing.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Life
  • Cool

• Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Time
  • Great
  • Movie

• Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

  

  George Will
  • Today
  • Progress
  • Liberty

• Revelation need not all come at once. It may be incremental. 'Saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I will give more' (2 Nephi 28:30). Patience and perseverance are part of our eternal progression.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Children
  • Blessed
  • Perseverance

• My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it.

  

  Claire Denis