Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I believe that life is basically a process of growth - that we go through many lives, choosing situations and problems that we will learn through.
Jim Henson
[On performing naked on-camera] "I`m much more confident in front of a camera, hidden by a character, enhanced by makeup, so I can go much further than I can in real life. Being naked is quite a natural thing, but it`s more the sexual situations. Sexual a...
Ludivine Sagnier
I like fantasy. I`ve always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in. I don`t know what makes you that kind of person. Some people probably don`t have time for fantasy. I probably have too m...
Scott Bakula
I`m interested in directing movies about situations that I`ve lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I`ve come to believe in.
Jodie Foster
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well jus...
Jeremy Northam
[On being strapped in a straitjacket and thrown in a body drawer for The Jacket (2005)] "Those situations are very challenging, emotionally and psychologically, to find yourself in a confined space like that. I thought it would be interesting. It was very...
Adrien Brody
To me, the Bond situations are so ridiculous, so outrageous. I mean, this man is supposed to be a spy and yet, everybody knows he`s a spy. Every bartender in the world offers him martinis that are shaken, not stirred. What kind of serious spy is recognize...
Roger Moore
If I had to fall in love with all the actresses I play with and live the situations I have to play, I would be lost ! I need to be solid and know who I really am to have fun in making something else. I noticed, while talking with other actors, that they o...
Olivier Martinez
I began to feel that he was a character who, left to his own devices, wouldn`t really speak at all.I thought about him as being autistic in some way. He simply doesn`t understand human beings. Social situations terrify him. On the character jean-Baptiste ...
Ben Whishaw
I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That`s why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the `good guy` or the `bad guy,` because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential ...
Guy Pearce
{On her marriage to David Wharnsby} "My relationship is the thing I`m proudest of in my life. I had a lot of opportunities to end up in some pretty bad situations and, despite all my faults, I had the sense to find someone like him and make the decision t...
Sarah Polley
It`s not too `left` from what I`ve done before with IMX. The difference is that this album is more about my own personal feelings and situations I`ve been in.
Marques Houston
I think if people love the source material, and that`s really whey they`re making the movie, then that`s a natural outcome. That the things we all love, and work with the creators of the movie to save the things that were so effective. I think it`s situat...
Sam Raimi
When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.
Atom Egoyan
When you are credible and you`ve done it, and been in certain situations, players are going to respect you, ... I know what they are thinking, so it is not hard to relate. I don`t talk much, and never have, but whenever I make a point or something, it get...
Charlie Ward
When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn`t be any press without the censorship.
Kate Adie
When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
Luigi Pirandello
When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I`m familiar with. I don`t write stories about the nineteenth century.
Satyajit Ray
When child actors act well they`re just reacting to situations, and they`re acting very real because their life experience is so short; there`s no history to fall back on.
Mariel Hemingway
What you see in a lot of these political situations is people talking about issues that they haven`t really had a chance to grapple with themselves.
Janet Reno
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson
