Takeshi Kitano Quotes

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

Takeshi Kitano

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: japanese
  • Birth: January 18, 1947

Topics

WorkArtMeYouGoOpen

Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents' record collection was all I had when I was a little kid. If it wasn't that, it was something else in their collection.

Jesse McCartney

MusicSoulParentsPeopleListening

When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.

John Grant

MyselfMoreHumanThingsGotMake

We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test.

Michael D. Barnes

PeopleSafetyTreatTestWaySystem

I dictate the pace of my fights and no one else.

Luke Rockhold

PaceDictateElseFights

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

Jean de la Bruyere

GodSpeakPersonSaySoberSee

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

Dionne Warwick

HopeServicePeopleMoreBeing Human

I was raised to think that if you behaved badly with men, you went to hell. I realise now it is puritanical and not very adult.

Debbie Reynolds

MenThinkHellYouNowI Was Raised

Nobody loses gracefully and easily, but there is a way to go about it.

Chauncey Billups

NobodyGoWayAboutGracefully

Everyone needs to take that time to figure out who they are. The fact that there's no love interests in 'Moana' - it's all about her - is very relatable. You don't need another person to help you find yourself.

Auli'i Cravalho

LoveTimeYourselfHelpYouFind

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

William James

LiePotentialSpecialNormalCall

In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there.

Shaun Evans

LiveLibraryBrilliantWhereGoing

My mother and father raised their eyebrows at first when I said I wanted to be an actor because I was in this industrial city. My dad had done a bit of boxing on the side, but he was a welder first and foremost. I was 17, and I said, 'I want to be an actor.' They worried it was a waste of time.

Sean Bean

FatherMotherTimeCitySaidDone

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