Interesting Quotes

• I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.

  

  George Eads
  • Life
  • Job
  • Death

• Sometimes you walk away from playing somebody and you think, "Wow that was far as from my own experience as I can possibly be." And sometimes you walk away thinking, "Wow. There are qualities in that character that I didn't realize I had." And those can be both interesting and uncomfortable.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Experience

• It's very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be made more profound when we think that there are many species, many creatures on earth that are very likely to have a mind, but are very unlikely to have a consciousness in the sense that you and I have.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Mind
  • Earth
  • Profound

• Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Culture
  • Environment
  • Beginning

• Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.

  

  Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
  • Together
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.

  

  Aleksey Igudesman
  • Music
  • Lost
  • Popular

• I think being a mom changed me, and now it's not just about what I want to do and what's sort of interesting, but what I absolutely have to do.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • Interesting
  • Mom

• Criticism can be wonderful, especially in making connections in an interpretive way. But by applying theories randomly, it's an interesting exercise, but I don't think it illuminates the literature.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Literature
  • Exercise
  • Criticism

• When you're 20 and you're in acting school and your teachers tell you that 95 percent of actors are unemployed for twenty years, you think it doesn't apply to you. But it does take twenty years to become real, because that's what you have to do to be an interesting actor.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Real
  • School
  • Interesting

• It's interesting - the greatest country in the world, we shouldn't have people starving. We shouldn't have young people not getting something to eat.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I feel like money is an interesting thing when you don't come from it.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Money
  • Interesting

• It's definitely an interesting question: 'Do you need more funding to start a luxury business?' That's something I want to think about a little bit more.

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir
  • Business
  • Interesting
  • Question

• Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Important
  • Interesting

• I think it's always interesting to learn what the seemingly spontaneous one-nighter actually reveals about a character.

  

  Kristan Higgins
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Work
  • Happy

• Robotic toys can be very interesting, but it is important that the toy not 'dictate' how the child should play with it. Rather, it should take its cues from the child and enhance, teach, and enrich the play experience. We incorporated some of these features into a robotic baby doll we built for Hasbro in 1999.

  

  Colin Angle
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Baby

• It is interesting to note that scientific men all over the world are awakening to the fact that the flesh of animals as food is not a pure nutriment, but is mixed with poisonous substances, excrementitious in character, which are the natural results of animal life.

  

  John Harvey Kellogg
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles is with mortality; and no one at all is immune to it, which makes it even more interesting to me. Some people fall in love, some don't. Some sky dive, some don't. Everyone who lives, ages.

  

  Amy Bloom
  • People
  • Desire
  • Fall

• My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Great
  • Career
  • Journey

• Performances are always more interesting to me when something is at stake.

  

  Kirsten Prout
  • Interesting

• We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.

  

  Bjork
  • Up
  • Interesting

• I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.

  

  Childe Hassam
  • Find
  • Relation
  • Compose

• Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten back heavily into the games business in the late Eighties. But I was operating under this theory at the time that the way to have an interesting life was to reinvent yourself every five or six years.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Business

• The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Imagination
  • Games

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