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Quotes by British Authors
"The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations."
"When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer."
"Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?"
"I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening."
"I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay."
"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."
"To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude."
"In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind."
"Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years."
"A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow."
"I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good."
"When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like."
"Good acting is consistency of performance."
"Golf seems to be an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dog's out."
"You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask."
"It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else."
"My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost."
"When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing."
"I was so incensed that I was oblivious to all as I ran over broken glass, holding a five-foot weightlifting bar. The glass tore the soles of my feet as I chased the gang's car up the street. I remember breathing heavily as I cursed failing to catch my enemies."
"I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses."
"To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other."
"On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration."
"I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay."
"I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine."
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