#ge

I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#i #myself #position #privileged #seriously

But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen. ↗

— Steve Case

#believed #day #different #different things #get

I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#always #comfortable #different #different personalities #element

When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#attendant #avoid #child #doing #figured

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#assigned #could #history #i #i think

I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#agent #boyfriend #buy #ended #enough

In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#competing #cumulative #effect #entirely #every

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#elvis #elvis presley #final #god #hands

If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point. ↗

— Steve Case

#believe #doing #get #gets #got

I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#could #cow #i #kill #thought