Idea Quotes
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We didn't talk about devil on the set. My mother and I didn't talk about it. Billy Friedkin and I didn't talk about it. It was a closet subject. But it was the best thing that happened because I had no idea what I was going.
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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle, and sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.
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I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to have an idea, and sometimes you are the idea.
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I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.
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I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.
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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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My idea is, I shine, you shine. If I'm doing well and you're with me, you do well.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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I love Ralph Lauren, just as a designer. I still think he could make some better sizes with his clothes, but I like the idea of his classic American style.
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Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.
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[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.
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Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?
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We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.
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Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you and others now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.
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An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.
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You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain discourse or a certain arena of questioning, regarding how you would deal with things that your character has to deal with. Whereas when you're doing a film, once you start asking, "What would I do?," you're getting the distance greater between yourself and the character, or you're bringing the character to you, which I think is self-serving, in the wrong way. The idea is to bring yourself to the character.
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You have an idea in your mind of how the first show will be. Since I was 15 years old in front of the mirror saying, "If I was in Priest, this is what I would do." But in truth, I don't remember any of it.
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
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I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school.
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There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.
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Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?
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I think all our players were encouraged by the effort, and thought we had the right idea. Our execution came up a little bit short.
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I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other places and they don't know a goddamn thing. They're the worst students. They just think they're good because they could pass.
