Making Quotes

• There's something that happens where you go, if you're lucky, goodness me, from film to another film to another film. And you can sort of feel that if you step off that treadmill, it might all go horribly wrong and you might never be employed again, you know. And I suddenly thought that that's not necessarily the case. And I also thought we make drama as actors about people in the world and that if you are on that treadmill, you start making films about other films.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Film
  • Feel
  • Goodness

• I'm not sure I like making movies that my kids can't go to, but that's just how it is.

  

  Stephen McHattie
  • Kids
  • Movies
  • Making

• By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.

  

  Abe Ajay
  • Art
  • Making
  • Manipulated

• Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

  

  Norman Angell
  • People
  • Evidence
  • Making

• One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

  

  Paul Mazursky
  • Director
  • Making
  • Genre

• Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.

  

  Ray Lewis
  • Character
  • Football
  • Playing

• Work-wise I'm either doing one or the other. Either I'm sitting there making beats and I'm going to do that the whole day, then when it comes time for recording I'll go back to my beats that I have. If I don't like any of the beats that I made, I'll go to my friends who made beats and I'll try their beats.

  

  Nav
  • Making
  • Beats
  • Recording

• In the beginning, I didn't have to love them, my acts. It was mostly about being successful, getting a trophy, and making some money. Now if I don't love the idea of it, I don't work on it.

  

  Michael Cohl
  • Work
  • Beginning
  • Successful

• I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

  

  Richard Serra
  • People
  • Interested
  • Basically

• One question you ask as a writer or any kind of artist when you start making something is, 'Does this have reason to exist in the world?' And you're reassured when you get little confirmations that people are pleased it did exist - whether they buy a ticket, whether it gets good reviews, whether it transfers.

  

  Mike Bartlett
  • Question
  • Something
  • Pleased

• Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Record
  • Surgery
  • Anesthetic

• I knew that I always wanted to keep making music, but I knew that comics needed to be a part of my life.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Life
  • Music
  • Part

• It was in Delhi when I started doing jingles and making money through music.

  

  Mohit Chauhan
  • Money
  • Making
  • Through

• When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

  

  Rene Rivkin
  • Company
  • Buying
  • Investors

• I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

  

  Robert Walpole
  • Making
  • Efforts
  • Despise

• Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.

  

  Daniel Amen
  • Character
  • Brain
  • Personality

• You know, I'm not making top dollar, but when you're making top dollar, there are a lot of people waiting for you to fall.

  

  Esai Morales
  • Waiting
  • Making
  • Dollar

• Acting is way of making yourself exist.

  

  Stephen Rea
  • Acting
  • Exist
  • Making

• I had figured out that it was a bad idea, but, well, it´s hard to argue with love, even when it´s making you do something really stupid.

  

  Adam Selzer
  • Stupid
  • Idea
  • Making

• Just live in the moment and not be afraid to try things out and make mistakes.

  

  Renny Harlin
  • Trying
  • Moment
  • Making

• I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

  

  Rickie Lee Jones
  • Really
  • Making
  • Participate

• Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Poetry

• As for what l'm making now, perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!

  

  George Rickey
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • Making

• People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, Its so big, I cant make a difference. I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

  

  Miles D. White
  • Sometimes
  • Company
  • Differences

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