Ridley Scott Quotes

For 'Prometheus,' I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the first 'Alien,' and no one answered in subsequent Alien films: who was the 'Space Jockey' - the big guy in the seat? If you really go into that, it becomes the basis for a pretty interesting story.

Ridley Scott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 30, 1937

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SimpleSpaceMeStoryInteresting

Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer.

John Hall

PeopleSomeoneWishYouMouthTry

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

Andrew Weil

LearningMedicineLearnYouHand

My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

John Irving

AnimalMeWritingLongNewWant

So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.

John Irving

WorkTimeFashionRealTimelyTerms

I don't really remember, but I'm positive that whenever I cried, my mother gave me something to eat. I'm sure that whenever I had a fight with the little girl next door, or it was raining and I couldn't go out, or I wasn't invited to a birthday party, my mother gave me a piece of candy to make me feel better.

Jean Nidetch

PositiveBirthdayMotherGirlFight

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

John Taylor Gatto

MeasureGradesManagerObedience

I actually have, in all seriousness, in the back of my mind someday to write a book, the title of which would be 'Quit Now and Other Practical Advice for the Aspiring Actor.'

Joshua Malina

MindBookAdviceBackQuitActor

I love cookery programmes.

Cilla Black

LoveI LoveCookeryProgrammes

I like Feist's music because it's really smart, but it's really free and soulful at the same time. Sometimes you only get one or the other.

Perfume Genius

MusicTimeSmartFreeYouSometimes

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Thomas Fuller

CourageCowardDespairGives

I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it's quite hard. If you give up a second time, it's a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it's starting to become a habit.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

TimeHabitPeopleYouWantBecome

I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost.

Gordon Strachan

HelpFeelingFirstPoliticiansGet

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