Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.

Charles Spurgeon

It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well.

Alan Watts

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

Alan Watts

You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

Alan Rosenberg

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

Alan Pardew

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

Alan Rickman

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Alan Rickman

I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.

Alan Rickman

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

Charles Dickens

Least said, soonest mended

David Mitchell

Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.

Bo Burnham

I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me...

David Hockney

I feel 30.[Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.

Audrey Meadows

Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you.

Aasif Mandvi

I said we are Ghodratis and there's nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.

Arthur Golden

I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.

Billy Carter

I always said what I thought and I didn't hold anything back.

Bill Hicks

I've said all that I've had to say.

Ludivine Sagnier

Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like Martin Scorsese.

Terrell Falk

When filmmakers make a movie, they make a movie for the large screen.

Andy Wachowski

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

Nina Jacobson

I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images.

Jonathan Mostow

Making a movie is difficult enough to sort of have a premeditated length that you're going for. I don't know a single filmmaker on the planet who does that.

Louis Leterrier

I feel like the great filmmakers who have a true voice, yeah they take the notes, they understand the notes, but it's really about the notes underneath the notes. When you do a test screening and somebody says, 'Well, I didn't like the love story,' but it was probably just too long.

Adriana Barraza

In Mexico, there are good filmmakers, but they didn't always have the opportunity to show their work. But since 'Amores Perros,' many of these filmmakers had the opportunity to show their films, and they have a newfound energy for cinema.

Tobias Lindholm

I have three sons, and the oldest wants to play pirates all the time. It has all these associations of living some kind of very free life. It's interesting for me as a filmmaker to show a whole different side of that.

Anil Kapoor

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.