Bryan Brown quotes

“They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.”
-- Bryan Brown

#Revenge Quotes #Elements Quotes #Half Quotes

“I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.”
-- Bryan Brown

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Book Quotes #Beer Quotes #Mates Quotes

“Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.”
-- Bryan Brown

#Shells Quotes #Matter Quotes #Far Away Quotes

“Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that.”
-- Bryan Brown

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Mother Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.”
-- Bryan Brown

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

#Actors Quotes #Ends Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.”
-- Bryan Brown

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

#Boys Quotes #Western Quotes

“You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.”
-- Bryan Brown

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Ambition Quotes #Plans Quotes

“It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.”
-- Bryan Brown

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Art Quotes #Stars Quotes #House Quotes

“When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.”
-- Bryan Brown

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#America Quotes #Able Quotes #This Society Quotes

“Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.”

“The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.”

“Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.”

Source : Albert Pierrepoint (1974). “Executioner, Pierrepoint”

“With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.”

Source : Interview with Ard Arvin, www.buildering.net. June 4, 2006.

“Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.”

“Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.”

Source : Ethel Alec-Tweedie, Mrs Alec-Tweedie (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”

“The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.”

Source : "Statement from Modern Painting and Sculpture". August, 1933.

“Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.”

“I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.”

“According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.”