Simon McBurney Quotes

I have always felt more at home in a culture that has nothing to do with the one I was born and brought up in.

Simon McBurney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HomeCultureBornNothingMoreUp

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

Jerry Spinelli

CuriousSomeoneOutBackgroundWho

My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.

Jerry Lewis

EgoComedyNothing

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

John F. Kennedy

TimeToolCouchMustUse

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

Anna Friel

LearningSupportStrongThinkNow

There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

Andy Milonakis

ArtDeepMeaningWantKindRetarded

Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.

Rupert Grint

BetterFamousBeing FamousWicked

I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.

Russell Crowe

EyesMomentPeopleTearsNightSkin

Chris Cornell painted in song the darkness and beauty of life in Seattle.

Mike McCready

LifeBeautyDarknessSongSeattle

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Louise Erdrich

WordsEnoughWithoutSitJust

But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world.

Juan Cole

ChangeResponsibilityWorldRespond

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

Brian Eno

Fairy TaleTraditionYearBackFairy

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

Asif Ali Zardari

WarThoughtGoExpressionOur

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