Direct Quotes

I just think I'm direct.

— Judy Sheindlin

I'm too direct.

— Metta World Peace

Every actor wants to direct.

— Theodore Bikel

“Can man direct his course?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I'd love to direct more.

— David Duchovny

I still direct my own videos.

— Tory Lanez

I wish to direct someday.

— Fawad Khan

I would like to direct.

— Aaron Eckhart

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.

— Robert Bresson

I'm too direct and too unsparingly impatient.

— Shirley MacLaine

I would love to write and direct.

— Sydney Sweeney

Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be direct and honest is not safe.

— William Shakespeare

I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.

— Caitriona Balfe

I always wanted to direct a film.

— Poonam Dhillon

I couldn't direct traffic. It's hard enough just acting.

— Mickey Rourke

I've always wanted to direct and as I grow and I get older and I get older I just want to let…

— Michael B. Jordan

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

— Anonymous

How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.

— Paulo Coelho

When I began to direct, I discovered that I was much more comfortable than I was acting.

— Phyllida Lloyd

What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.

— Simon Sinek

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

— Demetri Martin

I eventually want to write and direct and produce my own stuff.

— Kelly Marie Tran

As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

— Casey Neistat

All of the things I've directed, I'm really emotionally close to. That's why I choose to direct them and spend years on…

— Nicholas Stoller

I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through…

— Larry Buchanan

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government…

— Charles W. Pickering

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is…

— Andrew Carnegie

The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely…

— Aubrey de Grey

If Wes Anderson has a very strong cast, he can direct the minutia of that story and still manage to have something…

— Susan Sarandon

Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . .…

— Thomas A. Edison

I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has…

— Nicholas Stoller

I worked with John Maybury on The Jacket and I think he's an extraordinary film-maker. I read the first drafts of this…

— Keira Knightley

Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now it takes…

— Samael Aun Weor

The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring…

— Barton Gellman

Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially…

— Anonymous

When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence…

— Rollo May

Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my…

— James Franco

I believe [the Department of Energy] should be judged not by the money we direct to a particular State or district, company,…

— Steven Chu