Backgrounds Quotes · Page 39

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

[Dario Argento] speaks very broken English - he's Italian, so I'm going to do a very bad Italian impersonation - but he…

— Julie Benz

Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical…

— Jay Maisel

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

— Jarvis Cocker

What we have is a more sophisticated form of imperialism, which is economic. But lurking in the background, always ready to go,…

— Howard Zinn

I think ties are great and Kathy Bates is an actress whose work I've admired tremendously over many years, and I feel…

— Joan Allen

I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know…

— Priyanka Chopra

I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which…

— Carlos Santana

I grew up about 30 minutes north of Boston in a town that was a virtual melting pot - I was exposed…

— Alex Newell

I'm very superstitious about going on other people's sets. You have to ask permission of the director; you shouldn't just turn up…

— Ben Wheatley

From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy…

— William James

It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as…

— James N. Frey

I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I have a children's theater background, so I grew up performing for child audiences; it's sort of my specialty. I know the…

— Linda Woolverton

O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.

— Spencer W. Kimball

Doing a background check is still a very manual process, because the government agencies that create the records are largely paper-based systems.…

— James Lee

It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol,…

— Harry S. Truman

Love is the way I feel for you, the way you fill something inside me whenever you so much as walk into…

— Aimee Carter

Actually the royal family were very gracious and good to me. But I also found that the British establishment were never quite…

— Tony Blair

When you have two different women coming from two very different backgrounds, it's fun for us because we get to explore how…

— Sasha Alexander

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the…

— Kevin Ayers

I like Colin Powell, I like his West Indian background, I like his intellect, I like a lot of things that he…

— Harry Belafonte

You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will…

— William Friedkin

I'm offering myself up. I'm saying that if I have the background, the capability and the concern to do this and I'm…

— Fred Thompson

You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are…

— Octavia Spencer