Sophisticated Quotes

• Apparently modern financial regulators are vastly more sophisticated than we were as financial regulators 25 years ago - because we had never figured out that the key to financial stability was leaving felons in charge of the largest financial institutions in the world.

  

  William K. Black
  • Leaving
  • Stability
  • Institutions

• When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to differentiate between themselves and the characters they are playing while at the same time remain in character and spontaneous requires a sophisticated combination of skills and spirit.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Character
  • Language
  • Spirit

• I think the camera has got to be motivated. You can't have things arrived at gratuitously. Everything has to have an organic function, but the more comfortable I've become and the more imaginative and sophisticated and the more exploratory I've become at the medium, the more I've subtly deviated away from that in various ways.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Motivated
  • Various
  • Imaginative

• In a sense, children who live on a farm become sophisticated, too - but about more important things.

  

  Eve Arden
  • Children
  • Sophisticated
  • Important Things

• Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Good
  • Society
  • Match

• The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Building
  • Vulnerable
  • Vehicle

• I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.

  

  Cary Grant
  • Dialogue
  • Suppose
  • Sophisticated

• Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Revenge
  • Sophisticated

• What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Stupid
  • Jokes
  • Comedian

• You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Music
  • Painting
  • Learnedi

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