Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Emma Watson: Don’t feel stupid
“Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love.” ― Emma Watson.
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Warren Buffett: Not romantic
“Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.” —Warren Buffett.
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Salma Hayek: Never denied my background nor culture
“I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.” —Salma Hayek.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Literature
“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.” —Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Simon Sinek: Trust has two dimensions
“Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We can forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome.” —Simon Sinek.
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Sofia Kovalevskaya: Poet in soul
“It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.” —Sofia Kovalevskaya.
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Melinda Gates: Women acting on their own
“Women acting on their own can do what all the philanthropic organizations in the world can never accomplish: change the unwritten rule that women are lesser than men.” —Melinda Gates.
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Melinda Gates: Everything changes
“… when money flows into the hands of women who have the authority to use it, everything changes.” —Melinda Gates.
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Mindy Kaling: I saw you Monday!
“You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpopular, is that if I’m going to work every single day, I don’t think you should have to hug people hello every single day when you come to work. I saw you Monday!” —Mindy Kaling.
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Steven Spielberg: Failure and success
“Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.” —Steven Spielberg.
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Gina Rodriguez: Bigger dreams
“With each dream accomplished, bigger ones are put in their place.” —Gina Rodriguez.
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Tom Holland: Trying your hardest
“The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it’s not as good as you’d hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down.” —Tom Holland.
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Sarah Caldwell: Success
“Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.” —Sarah Caldwell.
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Christopher Plummer: Theater roles
“Theater roles are written by the great masters. The greatest literature that you can possibly know are the theater roles like King Lear, Hamlet, and all of those great roles. So all you do is you dive into these unchallenged roles and see how far you can get, what kind of accolades you can get,…
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Unknown: Without being disagreeable
“A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable.” – Source Unknown.
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Sunny Leone: Freedom of speech
“There is a price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good, the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.” —Sunny Leone.
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Simon Sinek: Greatest contribution
“The greatest contribution of a leader is to make other leaders.” —Simon Sinek.
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Cuba Gooding Jr: Based on race
“I have never made a decision based on race and never will.” —Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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Tony Fernandes: Drive, ambition and humility
“I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I’ve hired many people at very strange places.” —Tony Fernandes.
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Eddie Vedder: I Am Mine
“I know I was born and I know that I’ll die… The in between is mine. I Am Mine” —Eddie Vedder.
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Meryl Streep: Trying
“It’s good to push yourself and do what you don’t necessarily want to do, that if you’re not automatically good at it, you should try it. Trying is so important.” —Meryl Streep.
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Jordan Peele: Horror
“Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.” —Jordan Peele.
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Lee Smith: Simply immobilized
“Oh, if our children actually knew how much we love them, they’d never be able to hit any of these balls, they’d be simply immobilized by the force of it, by the awful force of our love.” ― Lee Smith, The Last Girls.
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Roger Moore: Acting range
“My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of ‘raises left eyebrow’ and ‘raises right eyebrow.’” —Roger Moore.
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Kevin Spacey: Rebel versus establishment
“If you haven’t turned rebel by twenty you’ve got no heart; if you haven’t turned establishment by thirty you’ve got no brains!” —Kevin Spacey.
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Johnny Cash: Saying
“If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.” —Johnny Cash.
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Guillermo del Toro: Disobedience
“You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.” ― Guillermo del Toro.
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Greta Gerwig: Women behaving badly
“I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we’re not always adorable and cute about it.” —Greta Gerwig.
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Mira Sorvino: Reach beyond fear
“We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.” —Mira Sorvino.
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Ashley Judd: Patriarchy
“Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in…
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Alexandre Desplat: Making music for movies
“That’s why I’m so passionate about making music for movies because you dive in and find the best ideas to bring tolife a collective piece of art. … [Composing] is not a job for me. And that explains why I never stop. Even though it’s tough on your body and your brain and the sacrifices…
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Sally Hawkins: Adulthood
“You think that adulthood will hit and you’ll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn’t happen, ever, does it?” —Sally Hawkins.
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Luca Guadagnino: Blur the boundaries
“As a director, what matters is how you penetrate the soul of the person in front of the camera and let the actor blur the boundaries between the character and the person themselves. In order to achieve that, I try to make people feel at ease, to be mindless of problems and be skinless and…
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Frances McDormand: No desire to be an adult
“There’s no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It’s not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 — sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.” —Frances Mcdormabd.
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Christopher Plummer: Look into a mirror
“Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you’re ever going to know the best you were meant to be.” —Christopher Plummer.
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Timothee Chalamet: Human communication
“Ninety-eight per cent of all human communication is non-verbal.” —Timothee Chalamet.
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Mary J Blige: Because I told you the truth
“You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.” —Mary J Blige.
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Emily Blunt: Immediacy
“People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There’s an immediacy of this day and age that doesn’t lend itself to being committed to anything.” —Emily Blunt.
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Matthew McConaughey: Selfish
“I’m a fan of the word selfish. Self. Ish. When I say I have gotten a lot more self-ish, I mean I am less concerned with what people think of me. I’m not worried about how I’m perceived. Selfish has always gotten a bad rap. You should do for you.” —Matthew McConaughey.
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Sandra Bullock: Dance a little bit in the morning
“The rule is you have to dance a little bit in the morning before you leave the house because it changes the way you walk out in the world.” —Sandra Bullock.
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Nicole Kidman: Liking and hating
“The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.” — Nicole Kidman.
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Eva Marie Saint: Forgiving
“I don’t know how I would have gotten through this life without someone to really love me and I love them, him, and them [family]. It’s forgiving. Love is very forgiving to one another and your friends and it’s a powerful, powerful emotion and it’s my favorite emotion in life. Now, write that down and…
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Allison Janney: Mentoring
“Don’t ever underestimate the power of mentoring someone, or helping some young actor, doing a favor for them, or introducing- everyone needs somebody to help them along when they’re first starting out.” —Allison Janney.
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Carl Sagan: Humans can work magic
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’ ) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your…
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Sam Rockwell: Structure
“I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.” —Sam Rockwell.
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Saoirse Ronan: Classic love story
“‘Romeo And Juliet’ is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that’s fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.” —Saoirse Ronan.
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Margot Robbie: Incredibly laidback
“We Australians are incredibly laid-back until it comes to drinking or playing sports.” —Margot Robbie.
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Jodie Foster: Nothing more beautiful
“There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn’t you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your…
