Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Taylor Swift: Common-sense thing
“I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing.” —Taylor Swift.
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Julia Roberts: Out loud
“If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.” —Julia Roberts.
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Elvis Presley: Adversity versus prosperity
“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.” —Elvis Presley.
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Susan Boyle: Enough people
“There are enough people in the world who are going to write you off. You don’t need to do that to yourself.” —Susan Boyle, The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story.
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Howard Marks: Patterns
“This effort to explain life through the recognition of patterns—and thus to come up with winning formulas—is complicated, in large part, because we live in a world that is beset by randomness and in which people don’t behave the same from one instance to the next, even when they intend to. The realization that past…
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Glenn Close: Don’t mess with me
“The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It’s my way of saying, Don’t mess with me.” —Glenn Close.
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Robert De Niro: Real situation, real human behavior
“In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.” —Robert De Niro.
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Jim Carrey: Desperation
“I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.” —Jim Carrey.
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Emma Stone: Improv
“You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.” —Emma Stone.
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Angelina Jolie: Interviewing
“I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing…
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Kevin Spacey: Risk takers
“I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.” —Kevin Spacey.
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Baltasar Gracian: Always leave something to wish for
“Always leave something to wish for, otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.” —Baltasar Gracian.
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Simon Sinek: Remarkable
“When we give expecting nothing in return, it is remarkable how much more others will give back to us.” —Simon Sinek.
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Dorothy Sayers: Repugnant
“What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.” —Dorothy Sayers, writer.
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Marcel Proust: Family traits
“The more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.” —Marcel Proust.
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Jodie Comer: False representation of women
“I think, in history, we often see a false representation of women. The men are always the successors and, supposedly, of their own merit, which I don’t believe to be to true.” —Jodie Comer.
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Simon Sinek: Opportunities off the plan
“When we’re obsessed with the plan, we miss all the opportunities that exist off the plan.” —Simon Sinek.
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Charlize Theron: Watch that constantly
“When they watch a movie and they know that you’re in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.” —Charlize Theron.
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Sandra Oh: Free from chatter
“It takes a long time to free oneself from chatter – goals, social media, image, persona. And if you’re able to move through in that way, you can actually start trying to create from a different place.” —Sandra Oh.
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G K Chesterton: Strange fanaticism
“A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.” —G K Chesterton.
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Michelle Obama: Commitment
“If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.” —Michelle Obama.
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Rachel Brosnahan: Only you
“You are the only you. That means you don’t lose roles to anybody else. There’s no competition, so they either want you or they don’t want you, and it’s not that they wanted someone else over you.” —Rachel Brosnahan.
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Timothee Chalamet: Fine balance
“I do find that there’s a fine balance between preparation and seeing what happens naturally.” —Timothee Chalamet.
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Ben Stiller: Old saying in Hollywood
“There’s an old saying in Hollywood: It’s not the length of your film, it’s how you use it.” —Ben Stiller.
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Constance Wu: Public service
“Public service is about serving all the people, including the ones who are not like you.” —Constance Wu.
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Richard Gere: Bravery
“I don’t think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.” —Richard Gere.
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Halle Berry: The first step
“The first step is clearly defining what it is you’re after, because without knowing that, you’ll never get it.” —Halle Berry.
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Olivia Colman: Demand equality and kindness
“I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It’s what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.” —Olivia Colman.
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Harrison Ford: Presence of justice
“Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.” —Harrison Ford.
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Warren Buffett: Unrecognized concentrations of risk
“When things go bad, all kinds of things correlate that no one ever dreamed correlated…. And there’s nothing more deadly than unrecognized concentrations of risk, but it happens all the time.” —Warren Buffett.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones: Words impress me
“Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.” —Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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Michael Douglas: Like a lovely orchid
“Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that’s nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it’s ignored, it withers.” —Michael Douglas.
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Irina Shayk: Mutual respect
“Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.” —Irina Shayk.
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Jeff Bridges: Just pretending
“A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.” —Jeff Bridges.
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Regina King: That’s really unfortunate
“A lot of black women still carry a lot of pain when they see black men with women who aren’t black, and that’s really unfortunate that that could make us so upset. It has to do with self esteem.” —Regina King.
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Darren Criss: Artistry in everything
“As a composer and as a musician I’m a true believer – and this is not to be overly diplomatic – I’m a believer that there’s artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There’s art in absolutely everything.” —Darren Criss.
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Jamie Lee Curtis: The more I like me
“The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.” —Jamie Lee Curtis.
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Alison Brie: What is it about women?
“What is it about women that they just go right for the guy that totally repulses them?” —Alison Brie.
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Idris Elba: Trained to do the right thing
“As an actor, you’re trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you’re working with.” —Idris Elba.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Fight
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Michelle Obama: Courage can be contagious
“You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.” —Michelle Obama.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Reacting
“Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Daniel Kahneman: Blind to our blindness
“We’re blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We’re not designed to know how little we know.” —Daniel Kahneman.
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David Grann: Last truly unexplored frontier
“The amazing thing about the sea is that it is perhaps the last truly unexplored frontier; most oceanographers estimate that only about ninety-five per cent of the sea has been studied. Meanwhile, the oceans are believed to contain more animals than exist on land, a majority of which have never been discovered.” —David Grann.
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Stephen Hawking: Always angry or complaining
“People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.” —Stephen Hawking.
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Yuval Noah Harari: You’re the product
“There is a saying that if you get something for free, you should know that you’re the product. It was never more true than in the case of Facebook and Gmail and YouTube. You get free social-media services, and you get free funny cat videos. In exchange, you give up the most valuable asset you…
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Charles Krauthammer: Choose incompetence
“Whenever you’re faced with an explanation of what’s going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.” —Charles Krauthammer.
