If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you’ve made a friend. Ricardo Montalban Read Quote
I’ve been banging on about doing stuff in Birmingham for years and years, and everyone says ‘We can’t, it’s the accent thing.’ For some reason it’s a very difficult accent to get right, harder even than Geordie. Steven Knight Read Quote
When you’re young you think that you’re going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. Doris Lessing Read Quote
I’m too professional, too much of a perfectionist to take my eye off the ball. Callum Smith Read Quote
I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it’s very hard to make a living as a jazz musician in Australia. So I went for an audition and got an acting job and, fortunately, I completely fell in love with that. John Polson Read Quote
With solos, I don’t like to be too prepared going in – I like to surprise myself. Alex Lifeson Read Quote
When I’m shooting a film, I don’t look at playback. I don’t go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven’t seen any of it. Andre Benjamin Read Quote
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can’t actually explain my political life except by a series of situations rather than by some carefully constructed, rigidly progressed ascendancy. David Lange Read Quote
Every now and then, we hear parents commenting on the fearful things which motion pictures may do to the minds of children. They seem to think that a little child is full of sweetness and of light. We had the same notion until we had a chance to listen intently to the prattle of a three-year-old. Heywood Broun Read Quote
