- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great Quotes
Quotes on great moments and discoveries.
These quotes use 'great' to describe very different things - a lifelong search for spiritual mystery, nostalgic memories of finding great music collections while living abroad, and an honest mix of great and difficult experiences tied to identity and pride. Related reading: Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
- Contemporary Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl. They do some great stuff and then - it's called mission drift. It becomes more about the parties.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to get very angry as I was getting older, because my voice was breaking. So I've trained my voice so religiously through my teenage years, because I wanted to be able to hit the notes that those females hit. And I can, which is great.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
- Great Actor
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
- Silence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
- Great Actor
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.
- Documentary Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like Taika Waititi a lot. I thought 'Boy' was a really wonderful film, had great resonance. Very sad but also very funny. I thought 'What We Do in the Shadows,' the vampire film, was fantastic.
- Mexican
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
- Great Qualities
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- Nov 07, 2020