- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the invincible arrogance of Europe's elites that gets me. These are people who have seen the euro collapse. These are people who are presiding over a migration crisis on their borders, and yet do they ever acknowledge that they need to change? No. They say they need more integration, more of our money, more control over this country.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents adopted me, and then, by the age of four or five, I was asking all sorts of questions, and they found themselves with a son who was interested in the sorts of things that they valued but weren't natural to them.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me I grew up watching 'All That Jazz' and 'Cabaret,' and when I was younger 'Mary Poppins',' The Sound Of Music,' and 'Singin' In The Rain.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many Hollywood adaptations of really popular manga series just don't get it right, and for me what was really important was that if I was gonna do 'Naruto,' I wanted to actually work with Kishimoto and get a script to a stage where he would look at it and be excited about realizing it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'The Greatest Showman,' I'm back doing VFX myself, allowing me to craft exactly how something looks, one frame at a time.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Classically, it's the child who looks up at their parents who says, 'This is how the future is going to be,' and it's the parents who don't understand because they're set in their ways. For me, it was the exact opposite.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really strange, this thing where people are like, 'I'm not into musicals' but so many people who have said that to me, I've taken to shows and watched their faces radiate.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone once told me they didn't like taking the lid off the kettle because they'd just lose it in the kitchen, so we made a kettle with an attached lid that you slide. It was in response to that that we made one that did something different.
- Entire Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
My entire career proves to me that if you believe in what you're doing, you will reap the benefits.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly the most requested song in performance is 'Love is Here to Stay,' and that is a favorite for me.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020