Jack O'Connell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. I really like what that suggests. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
-- Jack O'Connell

#Art #Perfection #Opinion
It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.
-- Jack O'Connell

#Stories #Ends #Obsessive Love
The way America appreciates cinema is different from anywhere in the world. It's celebrated and supported. I don't just mean by the individuals, but financially as well people are throwing money at certain projects.
-- Jack O'Connell

#Mean #America #People
I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility. After all this mental lifestyle of the past seven or eight years, it's good to find some outlets that are not bad for my health.
-- Jack O'Connell

#Past #Tranquility #Lifestyle
When all my mates used to think they were proper rude boys, they used to take the piss out of me for wearing casual clothing. But in terms of a faux pas, I reckon I'm too proud to admit it - I'm of the opinion that I always look boss.
-- Jack O'Connell

#Thinking #Boys #Rude
Reading scripts is actually quite a relaxing part of the job. Strangely relaxing. This is a whole different ball game.
-- Jack O'Connell

#Jobs #Reading #Games
Certain jobs [films] are for the business really, because they get an audience, they get a global audience. Certain jobs are as an artist. If I can keep moving forward and strike some form of balance between them two, then I'm going to feel content.
-- Jack O'Connell

#Jobs #Moving #Artist

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.
Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."
Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple thÃ©orie, elle est une vie supÃ©rieure, dont la moralitÃ© fait partie intÃ©grante - une vie vouÃ©e au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.
I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory - an awareness -of perfection.
Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species.
If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.
I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.
I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.
Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

Jack O'Connell famous quotes

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