Impression Quotes

I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.

When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols.

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.

This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.

One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.

I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them.

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world.

I really need to work. People think that I'm no longer interested in acting and only interested in working with the animals. Obviously I have given that impression, but it is not how I feel. I think I'm a good actor. I think I look OK. I don't understand why I'm not working all the time.