Alan Parker Quotes

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

Alan Parker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 14, 1944

Topics

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My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That's my aspiration.

Jeremy Miller

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I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

John Huston

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Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook.

Michael Dirda

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Women get exhausted and beat down, and you just want to cry.

Amy Chozick

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When I started making money, I immediately began buying property and fixing it up. I was always searching for the next neighborhood. The first place I bought when I was 19. I found a huge loft on the Lower East Side, almost 3,500 square feet. I did it up, turned it over, and sold it.

Trish Goff

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Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.

Roger Mahony

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It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

Robin Wright

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It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying.

Michel Hazanavicius

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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Jean Cocteau

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My first time actually appearing in a match at SummerSlam was 2010, and I was wrestling against Rey Mysterio in the opening match of the show. I was pretty brand new as Dolph Ziggler, and obviously Rey Mysterio was a well known superstar.

Dolph Ziggler

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People often ask whether I consider myself successful. I don't yet, because there's so much more I want to accomplish. I put more pressure on myself than anyone else can.

David Ulevitch

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Just because a romantic relationship ends doesn't mean that the other facets of your relationship have to end... or, indeed, doesn't mean they can't get better.

Chris Martin

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