Simon McBurney Quotes

I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.

Simon McBurney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 25, 1957

Topics

TogetherCreativeWritingTryingOwn

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

John F. Kennedy

IgnoranceDemocracySecurityVoter

I have no interest in jumping out of an airplane or any of the things people do for thrills, to push their limits and all that. To me, that seems foolish, and there's no point.

Anderson Cooper

PeopleMeAirplaneLimitsPushOut

I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to 'teach' or 'convert' people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a 'therapist' in the pulpit.

Robert H. Schuller

StylePeopleStrategyLiftTeach

People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

Michael Ironside

PeopleMeWonderTakeEither

Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.

John Shadegg

LawSomeoneViolenceCrimeSame

Great VCs do everything they can to make you successful. But just like your bank, credit card company, mortgage holder, etc. they are not confused where their long-term loyalty lies.

Steve Blank

LoyaltyGreatConfusedCreditYou

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

Stacey D'Erasmo

NatureParentingAmazingChallenges

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

Shirley MacLaine

ContradictionsCourseMass

If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.

Mason Cooley

PhonePlayHardGetSoonRinging

Music has always been in me.

Michelle Branch

MusicMeAlwaysBeen

The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.

Bruce Jay Friedman

YouBackImportantOutRoomMiddle

I still have shy qualities but nobody would believe that, just because we're in the forefront and I can talk a lot of mess and I can run my mouth.

Shemar Moore

BelieveMouthI CanJust BecauseRun

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