Elijah Wood Quotes

Many of my friends are not in the film industry, and I feel like it's healthy. It's not totally by choice. It is, perhaps, people I connect with.

Elijah Wood

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 28, 1981

Topics

PeopleFeelFriendsChoiceHealthy

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

Joe Flanigan

WorkLoveTimePoliticsCollege

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

Joan Jett

HealthBestDietYouAnimalsMeat

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

Ann Beattie

SaidNeverDepressingCynicalBeen

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

Spike Lee

OpportunityPowerPeopleBlessed

Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land', in most instances they're not even law.

Sonia Sotomayor

LawConstitutionLandEvenSupreme

If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're disciplined enough, you don't get down when you're behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.

Tom Landry

PositiveCompetitionChanceEnough

Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in its essence, it's soul-destroying. It tends to turn people into control freaks.

Mike Nichols

PeopleControlComedySpiritHard

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Logan Pearsall Smith

GoodCommunicationLikeHeSays

Everyone's second team in Italy is Leicester. In Thailand, the first team is Leicester. I've received letters from Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil - everywhere 'Leicester, Leicester, what a legend.'

Claudio Ranieri

TeamLegendLettersFirstEveryone

In much the same way Ip Man embodied the struggles of the Chinese people, I wanted Gong Er to represent the changing role of women.

Wong Kar-wai

WomenManPeopleWaySameStruggles

I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I try to keep it real for myself by focusing on individual anecdotes of how my books have helped kids learn to love reading.

Rick Riordan

LoveMyselfMindReadingLearnTry

I used to think of it as a joke that all paranoids were right. That was a joke in the '60s, but now I'm convinced that people should be paranoid reflexively - and then pare it down from there if there's any indication that they're wrong.

Richard Belzer

PeopleThinkDownWrongNowRight

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