“It's funny, when people want things to be very truthful and you're dealing with an inexperienced actor. I'm of the school that believes things like that have to be very carefully choreographed. You need people there to say, "It's going to happen like this."”
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“The trouble with audition process is, when you're an unemployed actor, it's the only time you get to act, and it can be quite fun. If you feel in control of the material and you feel that the people are pleased to see you and are excited by you auditioning for them, it can be a really rewarding process. But it can also be a very humiliating process.”
“I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!”
“Ewan McGregor is a very genial and entertaining man, and Pierce Brosnan is possibly the nicest man in the world. Actually, it was quite a genial set The Ghost Writer, but the weather and the colors and the actual surroundings were oppressive. But it was a created atmosphere. What was so striking is that Roman Polanski had his crew from The Pianist, and we were shooting in Berlin, so there were German and Polish and French people, and I was just sort of enjoying being in this mix of people, all kind of rubbing along together. That felt good.”
“Succesful people are all dreamers. A dream becomes an idea and then something concrete. I think it all starts with a dream.”
“I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.”
“There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.”
“I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think.”
“As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined to superstition, it is proper not to oppose them.”
“I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.”
“The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.”
“War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.”
“We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.”
“I've always loved to dance and keep fit but more recently I feel like I cannot keep up any longer and my back starts to hurt. And I get angry and then I have to really learn to forgive myself and go: you know what, you're nearly twice the age of some of the people in this room, give yourself a break.”
“The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.”
“I think film is a director's medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I'm always inclined to follow people like David Cronenberg.”
“People think they will wake up one day and I'll be gone. But I'm never going away.”
“I hate polite conversation. I hate it when people stand around and go, "Hi, how are you?" I hate words that don't have any reason or meaning. Also I hate it when people smoke in elevators and closed in places. It's just so rude.”
“Music makes the people come together.”
“I don't care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.”