#cause

I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make. ↗

— Christian Bale

#always #any #anything #because #confuse

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring. ↗

— Christian Bale

#biggest #biggest influence #boring #dad #influence

So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor. ↗

— Christian Bale

#actor #because #confident #director #everything

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#because #had #i #passing #regret

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#areas #because #came #emerging #england

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it. ↗

— Carl T. Rowan

#ask #because #been #before #believe

And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#blogging #came #great #innovation #look

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#caused #gone #last #microsoft #people

Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#because #confidence #conversations #easily #help

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me. ↗

— Willie Aames

#big #big movie #cleaning #day #god