Different Quotes - Page 265

It is different [to perform in Israel] because it arises from very deep wells of affiliation.

A lot of people can have a lot of different influences, everyone can be compared in some way to someone whether they are from 60 years ago or more recent.

I'm not a loud, extravagant person; I'm never going to be that and, to be honest, I don't want to be like that.

My parents have always done what they've loved, and they've had many different careers.

Unless the radio is on I am usually listening to stuff that is very different to what I do.

In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them.

There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of obsessions which we each cycle through.

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

Aren't most of us dealing with the fact that we have moms who either weren't ready to be moms or had some level of resentment about it? Everybody is dealing with the different iteration of pain their mom has handed them.

I really thought the process and what I'm used to doing on film would be different. I thought that because I wouldn't have the same amount of time, I wouldn't do all of the tracks that I like to do or the lighting that it takes. And then, I got there and realized that I don't know any other way. I just do all that stuff really, really fast and under a lot of stress.

I had no intention of replacing Arnold [Schwarzenegger]. There were a few things that made me want to do the movie. They were the script which had a different direction to it, and it was a chance to do a very different Quaid. I didn't read the short story until I went to college.Reading the story had a different effect on me of how I pictured him to be and the tone of the story was different. In the story, he's a bit more of an everyman.

When I started doing television, I thought that I would change the way that I shot, the way that I blocked, and the technical side of it. You're not going to change your relationship with the actors or how you approach the characters. That wasn't any different.

I really like to be able to have variety and to try different things - that's the beauty of fashion.

You see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet.

The reason I could fit in with so many different kinds of people was that I had no self. And then the problem is, if you don't have a self, how can you be with other people? Who the hell are you with them?

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

I have said this on many a previous occasion: that had the mix in Singapore been different, had it been 75% Indians, 15% Malays and the rest Chinese, it would not have worked. Because they believe in the politics of contention, of opposition. But because the culture was such that the populace sought a practical way out of their difficulties, therefore it has worked.

As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace. So, it's about adjusting to the pace. It's not meant for everybody.

But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.

Reba McEntire came through town when I lived in Texas. She had this amazing theatrical show with, like, 13 different wardrobe changes. I was eight and I was like, Wow, I wanna do that!

I'd love to be able to play all different roles, whether it's Maureen in Rent or Maria in West Side Story. I would just love to be involved in this business forever.