Sometimes being an actor is being a song in someone else’s mixtape, so I really understand why more and more actors are making films of their own. – Clark Gregg
Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out… otherwise, you just get the back of someone’s head playing music you could hear on a CD. It’s not enough anymore. – Marvin Hamlisch
The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else. – Noam Chomsky
I rewind the TV every two minutes. If someone does something interesting, I have to see it over and over again. – Cuba Gooding, Jr.
As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable. – Evgeny Morozov
I’ve never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don’t know why. – David Sedaris
If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it’s not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial. – Clive Sinclair
People ask me, ‘Have you ever considered doing stand-up?’ To me it would be less offensive if someone asked me, ‘Have you ever considered dental implants?’ – David Sedaris
When someone denies the right of Israel to exist, it hurts us, just as an attack on a close member of our family would hurt us. – Ephraim Mirvis
I love the feeling I get when I’m on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else. – Dakota Fanning
I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral. – Michael Todd
Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don’t get used to someone or take them for granted. – Monica Bellucci
That’s my prescription for a happy marriage – marry someone who doesn’t do anything similar to what you do. – Maxine Kumin
I’m by nature someone that quite likes to understand how things are working, likes some sense of structure, and I’ve fallen into the worst possible trade for that. – Eddie Redmayne
You can’t expect someone born into a family with no music… to understand when I’m conducting the Schoenberg Variations. – Daniel Barenboim
Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example. – N. R. Narayana Murthy
When I cast someone in a movie, I have to absolutely trust who they are as a human being. Trust is the intangible of moviemaking. – Derek Cianfrance