quotes about Look At Yourself

“Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.”

“I think it's the people that you work with who change you the most.”

Source : "The Time Traveling Actor". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 28, 2015.

“I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.”

“No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.”

“My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse, They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!”

Source : Robert Greene, George Peele, Alexander Dyce (1861). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene & George Peele”, p.355

“In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe life began on Mars and came to Earth, and that idea seemed to have a lot of traction and is now accepted as very plausible.”

“To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. ... It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.”

“Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.”

“I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.”

“I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own. A twelve is very different from a thirteen, for example. Twelve is upright, conscientious, intelligent, whereas thirteen is a loner, a shady character who won't think twice about breaking the law to get what he wants. Eleven is tough, an outdoorsman who likes tramping through woods and scaling mountains; ten is rather simpleminded, a bland figure who always does what he's told; nine is deep and mystical, a Buddha of contemplation....”