Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allison Anders

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

Melanie Griffith

I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.

Josie Bissett

I've sort of mellowed out. It used to be: I want to be a star, do big movies. Now, being married, it's like the reasons I wanted to do that seem the wrong reasons. I want to have kids.

Golshifteh Farahani

The subjects that I am working are movies that say something. They are shouting or criticising something. I would hate to play a princess waiting for the prince to come and give her a kiss.

Dick Wolf

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

Eugene Levy

tons of movies are shot in Toronto, but Toronto is never Toronto.

Rogers Johns

The motion picture is the people's Art.

Steve Erickson

There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.

Charlie Tahan

I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young.

Brandon Sanderson

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

Ben Mezrich

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

Barbara Mertz

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Augusten Burroughs

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Augusten Burroughs

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

Augusten Burroughs

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. Everything I write is the truth and I know that I would win.

Augusten Burroughs

What I think of blogs is just this: Some are beautifully written and many are not. But even blogs that aren't necessarily "well" written are great for the person writing them.

Cam Gigandet

I can get bored with any show, when it goes on too long.

Cameron Diaz

You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

Matt Taylor

There are some people who have seen us multiple times, and when I say multiple I mean coming up on a hundred. Yeah so it's a little strange?I can't even watch the same movie twice 'cause I get bored with it, so I don't know how people can see us over ninety times; it's unbelievable.

Diana Vreeland

Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

Alexa Chung

I'm terrified of being bored and not learning,

Chuck Palahniuk

I always really curious to see how people interpret things. I know my version, and I'm kind of bored with my version so I want to see their version.

Anita Roddick

I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

Richard Marx

I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?

Rene Magritte

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.