Carice van Houten Quotes

I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.

Carice van Houten

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: September 5, 1976

Topics

MeAmbitionAmericanBecomeNever

'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.

Andrew Davies

PeopleStrikePersonalWatchingNote

My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight,' although I got some in there. That was fun! There's just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.

Melissa Rosenberg

HumorFunMeWritingStorytelling

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.

Simon Schama

LifeTruthChallengeSpringPeople

I actually have a piece of the wardrobe of most of the characters that I've played. I always ask for something.

Rodrigo Santoro

AskAlwaysSomethingPieceMost

Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent.

Janet Yellen

BusinessBelieveThinkRightUp

You can get people to work by using threats or by promising rewards.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

WorkPeopleYouGetThreatsRewards

Aly Raisman doesn't have a podcast - but she should!

Jonathan Van Ness

SheShould

Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.

Jonathan Galassi

LifeYouBackNewResourcesStage

I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.

Chris Pine

SmileFaceEyebrowsGeneticJust

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

LoveWaterTrue LoveLove IsYouGo

There's a lot to live up to when three of your parents are successful in the music business.

Aubrie Sellers

LiveBusinessMusicParentsThree

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

Alice Lowe

TogetherThinkBecauseMadeI Think

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