Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Rachael Leigh Cook: Pretty two-dimensional
“You know, we have to take these characters – who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional – and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.” —Rachael Leigh Cook.
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Margot Robbie: ‘Overnight sensation’
“Everyone’s like, ‘overnight sensation.’ It’s not overnight. It’s years of hard work.” —Margot Robbie.
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Natalie Portman: Smart men and women
“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.” —Natalie Portman.
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Lana Del Rey: True freedom
“It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.” —Lana Del Rey.
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Dave Grohl: ‘Hey, I wrote a song’
“It was that famous joke: What’s the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? ‘Hey, I wrote a song.’” —Dave Grohl.
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Urmila Matondkar: Old-fashioned concept
“I believe in the old-fashioned concept of love. I’m too level-headed for lust.” —URMILA MATONDKAR, actor.
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Rose Byrne: Luddite
“All forms of contact are good: letters, parcels, e-mails – I’ve been trying to get a Webcam for my computer, but I’m such a Luddite.” —Rose Byrne.
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Jon Huntsman, Sr: Foundation of a great work
“Our Heavenly Father expects the best from each of us. We must believe in ourselves. Don’t give in when the going gets rough. You are laying the foundation of a great work, and that great work is your life.” —Jon Huntsman, Sr.
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Melania Trump: Donald gets things done
“Yes, Donald thinks big, which is especially important when considering the presidency of the United States. No room for small thinking. No room for small results. Donald gets things done.” —Melania Trump.
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Jennifer Aniston: Capacity
“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.” —Jennifer Aniston.
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Katie Price: Can’t afford to forget that
“The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who’ve put me here today, and you can’t afford to forget that.” —Katie Price.
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Bruno Mars: Music is not math
“Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.” —Bruno Mars.
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Gal Gadot: Discipline and respect
“Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You’ve got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it’s not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.” —Gal…
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Uma Thurman: Desperation
“Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It’s so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.” —Uma Thurman.
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Charles A Lindbergh: Life
“Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.” —Charles A Lindbergh.
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Rosa Parks: Reason and madness
“There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take… The line between reason and madness grows thinner.” —Rosa Parks.
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Robert Greene: Worst thing in life
“The worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that you have no energy in, that you’re not creative with and you’re not thinking of the future. To me, might as well be dead.” — Robert Greene.
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Daniel Day-Lewis: Reflection of character
“A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.” —Daniel Day-Lewis.
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Amanda Knox: Everyone is vulnerable
“If I’m innocent, it means that everyone is vulnerable. And that’s everyone’s nightmare.” — Amanda Knox, Amanda Knox. Amanda Knox.
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Waheeda Rehman: Shelf-life
“The shelf-life of a heroine is very limited. But I feel that a true artiste should never retire. Even now, I can’t say no to a role that excites me. But I don’t see films as my career any longer. I do it for the fun and satisfaction.” —Waheeda Rehman.
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Lady Gaga: Exactly who you are
“Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.” —Lady Gaga.
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Rachel McAdams: Kissing
“A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I’ve been kissing for nearly two decades now, and I’m always convinced I’m not doing it right. Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but it’s hard with a kiss.” —Rachel McAdams. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/rachel_mcadams_436938
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Rachel Weisz: Comedians
“It’s also that comedians don’t have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They’re writers who perform their own material. It’s more interesting. And they’re sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.” —Rachel Weisz.
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Jennifer Aniston: Don’t rely on men
“Don’t rely on men but don’t shun them either.” —Jennifer Aniston.
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Elizabeth Blackwell: Woman physician
“A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.” —Elizabeth Blackwell.
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Noni Hazelhurst: Cause of unity
“There are plenty of vigorous advocates for the cause of division. I’m a vigorous advocate for the cause of unity.” —Noni Hazelhurst.
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Marcus Aurelius: Action by action
“You have to assemble your life yourself—action by action. And be satisfied if each one achieves its goal, as far as it can. No one can keep that from happening. —But there are external obstacles.… Not to behaving with justice, self-control, and good sense. —Well, but perhaps to some more concrete action. But if you…
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Marcus Aurelius: People, our proper occupation
“In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them. But when they obstruct our proper tasks, they become irrelevant to us—like sun, wind, animals. Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we…
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Joseph McCarthy: American life
“American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.” —Joseph McCarthy.
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Justin Timberlake: Blessings
“I was raised in a very humble environment, and I was always taught to be humble to the things that are happening in my life because they’re blessings. They’re blessings in every way. Whether you’re able to help someone get through a tough time in their life through your music or through comedy, or whatever…
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Julie Bowen: Tiny
“Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive!” —Julie Bowen.
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Natalie Wood: Changing a man
“The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.” —Natalie Wood.
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Phil Zimmermann: Privacy
“If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.” —Phil Zimmermann.
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Mark Gatiss: Grotesque people
“I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks – who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.” —Mark Gatiss.
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Steven Moffat: Intelligence in your audience
“I can’t see what’s wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what’s bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.” —Steven Moffat.
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Emraan Hashmi: Nepotism
“Yes, nepotism exists in the industry and I got a break because of it.” —Emraan Hashmi.
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Christopher Walken: Public image
“You know, there’s nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you’re doing, yourself, if you figure you’re doing the right thing.” —Christopher Walken.
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Britney Spears: Daisy Duck
“If I was to pick a cartoon character I am most like, I would say Daisy Duck because she is very stubborn, she has a very feminine sense, and she knows what she likes.” —Britney Spears.
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Sofia Vergara: I’m blonde
“Yes, I’m blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not what the stereotype of the Latina woman in Hollywood is, so they didn’t know where to put me. The blond hair wasn’t matching. The moment I put my hair dark, it was better…
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Melania Trump: Best possible education
“You judge a society by how it treats its citizens. We must do our best to ensure that every child can live in comfort and security, with the best possible education.” —Melania Trump.
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Zac Efron: Be open and receptive
“You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.” —Zac Efron.
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Gertrude Stein: Common sense
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” —Gertrude Stein.
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Walter Bagehot: Vices and temptations
“It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.” —Walter Bagehot.
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Anna Freud: Creative minds
“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.” – Anna Freud.
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Erik Voorhees: Useful and scarce
“Economists and journalists often get caught up in this question: Why does Bitcoin have value? And the answer is very easy. Because it is useful and scarce.” —Erik Voorhees.
