Intense Quotes

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.

Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.

I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense.

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time.

A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

It's definitely intense to walk away from at the end of each season.

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.

I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.

I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.

This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.

My job is intense. It's very physical.

Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.