Tony Scott Quotes

I wake up every morning bolt upright, whether it's a commercial, not that that's a good thing or a bad thing, because I shoot commercials in between movies. But whether it's a commercial or a movie where I'm shooting a major train wreck, the thing that worries me most is when I'm doing a performance thing.

Tony Scott

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 21, 1944 - August 19, 2012

Topics

GoodMorningMePerformanceWake Up

My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

Matthew McConaughey

FamilyNextEveryoneWhole

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

John Wooden

LearningLearnYouKnowCounts

I missed the Olympic team in 1996 - missed making the team. I tried to make a comeback in my sport, and soon after the Olympic trials, Johann Olav Koss, who is a Norwegian speed-skater, called me up and asked me to be a part of Olympic Aid. Now Olympic Aid is Right to Play. It's a wonderful, narrow focus.

Summer Sanders

FocusMeTeamComebackPlayTrials

I've been given the tools necessary to be a great musician, a great entertainer, and great person that's gonna inspire everyone.

Trevor Jackson

GreatInspireToolsPersonEveryone

Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States' initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.

Miguel Syjuco

HistoryExperiencePowerfulFirst

I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.

Jason Moran

MusicRoadAmericanDietBackKind

I always think the villains in all of the Disney movies are almost operatic in scale.

Jonathan Freeman

ThinkMoviesAlwaysAlmostScale

The big deal for me has always been innovation.

Dinesh Paliwal

InnovationMeAlwaysBigDealBeen

I'm always being inspired .

Boy George

AlwaysInspiredBeing

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

William James

AttitudeBeginningWillDifficult

I have actively opposed every bailout, every rebate check, every so called 'stimulus.'

Phil Gingrey

CheckEveryBailoutOpposedStimulus

I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.

Peter T. King

LiveWorldPrisonBeenIdealModel

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