Chris Weitz Quotes
All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that.Chris Weitz
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
Manfred von Richthofen -
When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
Odette Annable -
I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
Forest Whitaker -
I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
Taraji P. Henson -
When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
Jack Nicholson -
I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
Dan O'Brien
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
Tabatha Coffey -
I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
Ian Frazier -
I love working with women.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
Yami Gautam
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
Rachel Maddow -
I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
Ian Rankin -
Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
Zendaya -
The joke is mightier than the sword.
Bassem Youssef -
Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
Uta Hagen -
I knew 'Bad Girls' attracts a younger audience, and it's vital to get oneself known to that audience because, unless they watch me in re-runs on 'U.K. Gold,' they won't know me from a hole in the ground.
Kate O'Mara
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I've always been a Nike person.
Wale -
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Love is a river. Drink from it.
Rumi -
I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped.
Jane Gardam -
All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that.
Chris Weitz