#head

People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. ↗

— Halle Berry

#down #expectation #fall #head #huge

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#commonly #her #invisible #namely #patron

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#does #figurehead #part #talking #thinking

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#alone #chair #come #director #hard

It's incredible, but I think a lot of people it shot over their heads 'cause they're used to just getting images and messing around with them, and for us to do something quite so 'designed' was a bit of a shock. ↗

— Sean Booth

#bit #cause #designed #getting #heads

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance. ↗

— Victor Borge

#head #her #improves #off #opera

I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine. ↗

— Ralph Boston

#beat #competition #did #down #fine

In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am. ↗

— Kate Bosworth

#am #business #easy #either #head

But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#days #disturbance #eventually #lived #may

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#been #cut #great #haven #heads