Jeremy Irons Quote

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

Akira Kurosawa

I don't know if I was a star. I was certainly working a lot and that was strange because there were good things about it and things that were difficult.

Jennifer Connelly

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

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Leo Tolstoy

• Art

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

Russell Crowe

• Praise

I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.

Ewan McGregor

It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.

Uma Thurman

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

Colin Firth

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

Peter Weir

I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you.

Kate Hudson

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.

Richard Serra

There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Life

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Marilyn Monroe

• Let-go
• Learning
• Famous
• Actress
• Celebrity
• Change

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

Anatole France

• People

People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.

Calvin Klein

• Health

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Andre Gide

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

Billie Jean King

• Awareness

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

Colin Firth

There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.

Giorgio Armani

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

David Letterman