Direct Quotes · Page 12

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

— Jonathan Brandis

I try to direct myself the way I direct the other actors who come on my show.

— Pamela Adlon

I don't hate being an actor. But if there's a choice, I prefer to direct.

— Stephen Chow

My plate is full with just acting. I want to focus on that, and then maybe direct in the future.

— Penelope Cruz

I would have never thought when I was a young actor that I would want to direct.

— Soni Razdan

I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.

— Robert Pattinson

Direct sales offers the education my rich dad taught: build your own network rather than working for a network.

— Robert Kiyosaki

The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.

— Bill Murray

How soon will you realize that the only thing you don't have is the direct experience that there's nothing you need that…

— Ken Keyes Jr

There is a direct line between the communications work I did to protest tuition increases at my school and what I do…

— Lewis Schiff

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I…

— Angelina Jolie

I had a bad experience on Ned Kelly, which I'd written the screenplay for. I thought: "Well Jesus, if these are the…

— John Michael McDonagh

I've been in situations where I've been sent scripts to direct, and I always end up becoming very controlling and wanting to…

— Frank Whaley

It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions…

— Richard Avedon

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

— Anonymous

Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true…

— Paul Brunton

In the 10 cities with the nation's highest obesity rates, the direct costs connected with obesity and obesity-related diseases are roughly $50…

— Michelle Obama

When I went to Spain, the tourism minister told me a lot of people want to come to India, as they love…

— Chiranjeevi

Giancarlo Giammetti has a lot of nervous energy. He's a director, really. He was trying to direct the Valentino movie over my…

— Matt Tyrnauer

Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving…

— Joel Miller

Big banks churn out page after page of incomprehensible fine print to obscure the cost and risks of checking accounts, credit cards,…

— Elizabeth Warren

As a former NFL athlete, my quality of play on the field was in direct correlation to how I took care of…

— Devon McDonald

You have to separate artistic ability from ethnic origin. Not only am I not black, I am also not a woman, therefore…

— Gavin Hood

We drove to the airport. On the way, Clay gave him "the lecture," including all the do's and don'ts of meeting the…

— Kelley Armstrong

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

— Gustave Courbet

I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well.

— Zoe Kravitz

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.

— Kyle Chandler

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

— James Allen

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

— Samuel Johnson

I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to…

— Brad Templeton

The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.

— Noam Chomsky

I have been directing ads and videos for quite some time. And I wanted to direct films.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

Banks need to have large shareholders on the board that have a direct interest in their performance.

— Mian Muhammad Mansha

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

— James H. Austin

I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.

— Kate Fleetwood

In order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, it's essential to have a great deal of purity.

— Frederick Lenz

Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

— Katy Perry

Usually I don't like to act in movies that I direct because it's kind of confusing.

— Rob Reiner

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

— Steven Weinberg