Famous Quotes & Sayings

Platon

I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with.

Matt Damon

Right before The Bourne Identity came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

Doug Liman

More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate, than what was taken from Robert Ludlum's novel.

Doug Liman

The more real I got on 'The Bourne Identity,' the more interesting it got. So 'Fair Game' was the chance to go a few more steps in that direction. In fact, I discovered this whole other world that I had ignored in the 'Bourne' franchise, which is the domestic life of a spy, and how you make the two halves of your life coexist.

Doug Liman

I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.

Pierce Brosnan

Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. It's the cross pollination of 'The Bourne Identity' and 'James Bond;' that kind of style of filmmaking.

Julia Stiles

The thing with the Bourne movies is that they're so big in scope and the production value is so high and it takes so much organization.

Matt Damon

Before 'The Bourne Identity' opened, 'The Legend of Bagger Vance' and 'All the Pretty Horses' had been huge bombs, ... I went eight months without getting an offer.

Yosef Lapid

will not live under the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb.

Mehrangiz Kar

It doesn't mean that the majority of the Iranian people think like that. They are staying in their homes. They are not on the streets.

Javier Solana

We have to see what is the response that the Iranians give us.

Mark Gwozdecky

IAEA received a prompt response from Iranians to visit the site, prompt access,

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.

Nicholas Burns

We want the Iranians to negotiate, whether it's with the EU-3 or Russia or any other country, on a serious basis.

Chris Christie

When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

Russell Tovey

I think if I met Frank Auerbach or Jeff Koons, I'd be more wobbly than if I met Robert De Niro!

Megan Fox

I want to be as pretty as Robert Pattinson.

Daryl Sabara

I don't know why there hasn't been a 'Spy Kids' cartoon. You have to bring that up to Robert Rodriguez and see what he has to say. That would be an interesting thing to do with this series.

Harland Braun

We want the LAPD to investigate Robert Blake. The more they investigate, the more they'll find out he didn't do it.

Kenneth Branagh

I did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.

Chin Han

I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.

Katherine Harris

You know, I think it's so important that Roberts is confirmed. And so we've insisted, we've promoted, we've cajoled, advocated for his confirmation.

Kerry Collins

Robert Gallery, ... makes us a better team, that's for sure.

David Edwards

I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.

David Hewson

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

David Boreanaz

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.

Nicole Holofcener

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

C. S. Lewis

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

Bette Davis

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

Benjamin Rush

Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them...

Peter O'Toole

You know when you've found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him.

Paul Hogan

I'm the only person who's ever opened the Oscars or done a spot on the Oscars without a script and having it on autocue.

Richard Rossi

I was very ambitious, and I wrote a script that was 180 pages,

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

Carl Sagan

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

Carl Sagan

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Benjamin Rush

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Antoni Tapies

At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.