Simon McBurney Quotes

I find all food irresistible. I have friends who live in the mountains in France. One of them sells vegetables, and to walk through her garden when everything is bursting out - it's impossible not to eat something.

Simon McBurney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LiveFoodWalkMountainsImpossible

As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.

John Burnside

ChildWorldCuriosityLikeCreatures

I think every actor should be always grateful when they work.

Robert Knepper

WorkGratefulThinkActorAlways

We have the opportunity not just to choose our job or profession, but also to choose the sort of life we want to live and the imprint we will leave on others.

Michael Gove

LifeLiveOpportunityJobChoose

One of the things that distinguishes the CIA from the State Department is that the CIA is both asked to, and authorized to, steal secrets. So if the question is whether the CIA steals secrets, the answer is yes.

Michael Hayden

SecretsQuestionYesThingsAnswer

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

Mencius

MenFreeWillDecideOughtFirmly

If I were a man, I'd be allowed to play roles that were compelling and drove an audience to an emotional response.

Amber Heard

ManPlayAudienceEmotionalResponse

I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me.

Sienna Miller

MeLookPigEatOffWeight

One of the many American ideals that make no sense at all is that we're all a million rugged individualists marching in lockstep. We dress accordingly, at least the men. If it's always been thus, I yearn for the halcyon days of the man in the gray flannel suit because at least that guy had some flair.

Rumaan Alam

MenManDressAmericanGrayAlways

In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

Mike Figgis

ProcessImprovisationClearPlotSum

My younger brother runs a guesthouse, and my sister is a janitor. I have not given them money because they earn their own money. I pay for their children's school fees.

Chen Guangbiao

ChildrenMoneySchoolBrotherSister

Therefore we have to go over the fact that all human beings are afraid by what is new. It is our work to convince them that they will enjoy it, and even if they don't, to allow us just for 14 days to create that work of art.

Christo

WorkArtEnjoyCreateGoNew

Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.

Craig Brown

LoserMoralKnowLettersUpsetAim

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