Mira Nair Quote

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

Angelina Jolie

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

George Eliot

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.

Jeremy Irons

People always tell me, 'Don't work so much', but I can't help it. I feel like all the things I've done are important to get to this adult stage and now I'm getting all these adult offers, so it's working.

Kirsten Dunst

You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything.

John Malkovich

What brings people down is the same thing over and over.

Meg Ryan

• People

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Napoleon Bonaparte

• Self-discovery

When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.

Patrick Swayze

• People

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Anatole France

• People

When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.

Isaac Mizrahi

• Children

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Theodore Roosevelt

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Bruce Lee

• Time
• Thinking

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Dante Alighieri

I believe people can move things with their minds.

Justin Timberlake

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Edmund Hillary

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.

Calvin Klein

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

Ellen DeGeneres

• Funny

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

Antisthenes

I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing.

Charlize Theron