Luxury Quotes

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

Frances O'Grady
- Me
- College
- Luxury
Real luxury is customization.

Lapo Elkann
- Real
- Luxury

I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.

Madeline Zima
- Different
- Movies
- Choose
I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.

Tamsin Greig
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Hannah More
- Poverty
- Youth
- Luxury
When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

J. C. Chandor
- Writing
- Movie
- Pretty
I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

Ingrid Newkirk
- Travel
- Luxury
- Cuddling
The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.

Felicity Jones
- People
- Up
- Saying