Great Quotes

I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.

It's very easy to fall in love when things are great, but the way to really fall in love is when things aren't great.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

Great thoughts come from the heart.

I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

Experience is a great teacher.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty of air around you.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.