Simon McBurney Quotes

When I was doing 'A Disappearing Number' in Plymouth, we had to go on an hour and a half late, and I still hadn't written an end, so we had to make one up, and then we had to go out literally with our pants round our ankles.

Simon McBurney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

EndDoingLateGoPantsOut

By making yourself better, that's how you make your team better.

Jimmy Garoppolo

YourselfTeamBetterYouYourHow

Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.

Joe Green

YouChristmasWithoutSocialBite

It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

John Prescott

MovingDirectionRightAdministration

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.

Tom Selleck

InnovationThinkTelevisionAlways

I think co-working spaces, incubators, and accelerators outside of the Bay Area do a lot to foster a local startup scene - which is really important for early founders, but I also think that exposure to the Bay Area is extremely valuable for startups.

Michael Seibel

ThinkEarlyImportantOutsideBay

There's been a lot of champions before me, and I'm sure there will be ahead of me.

Lizzie Armitstead

MeChampionsAheadWillSureBeen

Every time I get accustomed to low volatility, like we were towards the end of the Greenspan era, and we think we have all the levers under the control... something erupts to remind us that the idea that anybody is in control of everything is hubris.

Lloyd Blankfein

TimeControlThinkEndVolatility

I think a lot of people see fashion as a feminine art form and use that as an excuse to dismiss it. Highlighting it can be a way of affirming that women's interests are of value.

Lisa Hanawalt

WomenArtValuePeopleFashionWay

According to the comprehensive Global Burden of Disease project, the leading risk factors for ill health and premature death are linked to lifestyle, what we eat and drink and how much we exercise. Disease prevention does not occur in the hospital. We need the whole of society to be involved.

Jonas Gahr Store

HealthDeathSocietyExerciseBurden

When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writing, even if it was just pretend at that point.

Jonathan Dee

FatherMyselfMemoryWritingBook

You never know what's going on in someone else's life and that you can't always understand how what you say or what you do - no matter how big or small it may seem to you, it could be the end of the world for someone else.

Devin Druid

LifeWorldSmallEndSomeoneYou

I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.

Chris Klein

LoveWantActorLineBottomBeing

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