A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.
Steven Berkoff
I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.
Steven Berkoff
In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.
Steven Berkoff
The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.
Steven Berkoff
The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.
Steven Berkoff
Writing is an antidote for loneliness.
Steven Berkoff
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Showing posts with label actor quotes. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Xander Berkeley Quotes
Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
Xander Berkeley
I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
Xander Berkeley
I don't look too far ahead.
Xander Berkeley
I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
Xander Berkeley
I'd better make hay while the sun shines.
Xander Berkeley
It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.
Xander Berkeley
Peter Bergman Quotes
I do like large entrances, but this was a little too large.
Peter Bergman
She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.
Peter Bergman
We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.
Peter Bergman
When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?'
Peter Bergman
When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win.
Peter Bergman
Peter Bergman
She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.
Peter Bergman
We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.
Peter Bergman
When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?'
Peter Bergman
When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win.
Peter Bergman
Michael Bergin Quotes
A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
Michael Bergin
By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.
Michael Bergin
Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.
Michael Bergin
I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
Michael Bergin
I didn't know a damn thing about style.
Michael Bergin
I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.
Michael Bergin
I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.
Michael Bergin
I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.
Michael Bergin
I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.
Michael Bergin
I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.
Michael Bergin
I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.
Michael Bergin
I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.
Michael Bergin
I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.
Michael Bergin
I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.
Michael Bergin
I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.
Michael Bergin
It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.
Michael Bergin
My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.
Michael Bergin
New York is tough on lonely people.
Michael Bergin
Thank God for little miracles, right?
Michael Bergin
The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.
Michael Bergin
Michael Bergin
By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.
Michael Bergin
Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.
Michael Bergin
I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
Michael Bergin
I didn't know a damn thing about style.
Michael Bergin
I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.
Michael Bergin
I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.
Michael Bergin
I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.
Michael Bergin
I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.
Michael Bergin
I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.
Michael Bergin
I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.
Michael Bergin
I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.
Michael Bergin
I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.
Michael Bergin
I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.
Michael Bergin
I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.
Michael Bergin
It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.
Michael Bergin
My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.
Michael Bergin
New York is tough on lonely people.
Michael Bergin
Thank God for little miracles, right?
Michael Bergin
The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.
Michael Bergin
Edgar Bergen Quotes
After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
Edgar Bergen
But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
Edgar Bergen
Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
Edgar Bergen
I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
Edgar Bergen
I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
Edgar Bergen
Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
Edgar Bergen
OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
Edgar Bergen
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
Edgar Bergen
So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
Edgar Bergen
Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
Edgar Bergen
You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
Edgar Bergen
Edgar Bergen
But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
Edgar Bergen
Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
Edgar Bergen
I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
Edgar Bergen
I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
Edgar Bergen
Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
Edgar Bergen
OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
Edgar Bergen
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
Edgar Bergen
So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
Edgar Bergen
Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
Edgar Bergen
You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
Edgar Bergen
Peter Berg Quotes
It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.
Peter Berg
Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.
Peter Berg
Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.
Peter Berg
There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.
Peter Berg
Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.
Peter Berg
What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?
Peter Berg
When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.
Peter Berg
You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.
Peter Berg
Peter Berg
Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.
Peter Berg
Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.
Peter Berg
There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.
Peter Berg
Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.
Peter Berg
What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?
Peter Berg
When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.
Peter Berg
You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.
Peter Berg
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Gemma Arterton Quotes
I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.
Gemma Arterton
My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.
Gemma Arterton
Gemma Arterton
My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.
Gemma Arterton
David Arquette Quotes
The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.
David Arquette
Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that my daughter can see soon - when she is old enough to know what a movie is.
David Arquette
David Arquette
Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that my daughter can see soon - when she is old enough to know what a movie is.
David Arquette
Tom Arnold Quotes
Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.
Tom Arnold
The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.
Tom Arnold
Tom Arnold
The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.
Tom Arnold
Will Arnett Quotes
And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show.
Will Arnett
And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development.
Will Arnett
And we... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors.
Will Arnett
Arrested Development opened a lot of doors for me.
Will Arnett
Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.
Will Arnett
But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five months about what was going to happen, and if we were going to move to Showtime, and if we were going to be bought by ABC or whatever.
Will Arnett
But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been.
Will Arnett
I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.
Will Arnett
It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint.
Will Arnett
Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK.
Will Arnett
Most shows, you really have to force it. And everybody's nervous, and the network is nervous, and they've all got their notepads out, and they're all going to give notes on what they think is funny, and everybody's trying to spin their jokes, and this was so - the script was so good that we didn't have to really do anything, and it made it so easy for us to do well.
Will Arnett
My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.
Will Arnett
No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted.
Will Arnett
The show had run its course on the Fox network.
Will Arnett
There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.
Will Arnett
This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.
Will Arnett
Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it.
Will Arnett
Well, we were never coming back to Fox... that was clear.
Will Arnett
Well, yeah. At a certain point, you've got to be really honest with yourself. Like, 'Why am I doing this? What are my motivations?' Like, if you get into it because you want to be famous? Then you've got a long row to hoe. But if you really feel like it's a labour of love and it's something you're actually legitimately good at, then it's not that hard to keep plugging away.
Will Arnett
When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing.
Will Arnett
Will Arnett
And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development.
Will Arnett
And we... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors.
Will Arnett
Arrested Development opened a lot of doors for me.
Will Arnett
Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.
Will Arnett
But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five months about what was going to happen, and if we were going to move to Showtime, and if we were going to be bought by ABC or whatever.
Will Arnett
But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been.
Will Arnett
I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.
Will Arnett
It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint.
Will Arnett
Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK.
Will Arnett
Most shows, you really have to force it. And everybody's nervous, and the network is nervous, and they've all got their notepads out, and they're all going to give notes on what they think is funny, and everybody's trying to spin their jokes, and this was so - the script was so good that we didn't have to really do anything, and it made it so easy for us to do well.
Will Arnett
My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.
Will Arnett
No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted.
Will Arnett
The show had run its course on the Fox network.
Will Arnett
There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.
Will Arnett
This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.
Will Arnett
Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it.
Will Arnett
Well, we were never coming back to Fox... that was clear.
Will Arnett
Well, yeah. At a certain point, you've got to be really honest with yourself. Like, 'Why am I doing this? What are my motivations?' Like, if you get into it because you want to be famous? Then you've got a long row to hoe. But if you really feel like it's a labour of love and it's something you're actually legitimately good at, then it's not that hard to keep plugging away.
Will Arnett
When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing.
Will Arnett
Desi Arnaz Quotes
A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.
Desi Arnaz
Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.
Desi Arnaz
American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
Desi Arnaz
An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
Desi Arnaz
An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.
Desi Arnaz
At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.
Desi Arnaz
Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.
Desi Arnaz
Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.
Desi Arnaz
Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
Desi Arnaz
Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.
Desi Arnaz
I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.
Desi Arnaz
I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.
Desi Arnaz
I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat.
Desi Arnaz
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
Desi Arnaz
I went to high school with Al Capone.
Desi Arnaz
Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.
Desi Arnaz
Lucy and I would love furiously and fight furiously.
Desi Arnaz
Lucy is such a perfectionist.
Desi Arnaz
Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.
Desi Arnaz
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.
Desi Arnaz
Desi Arnaz
Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.
Desi Arnaz
American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
Desi Arnaz
An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
Desi Arnaz
An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.
Desi Arnaz
At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.
Desi Arnaz
Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.
Desi Arnaz
Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.
Desi Arnaz
Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
Desi Arnaz
Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.
Desi Arnaz
I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.
Desi Arnaz
I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.
Desi Arnaz
I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat.
Desi Arnaz
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
Desi Arnaz
I went to high school with Al Capone.
Desi Arnaz
Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.
Desi Arnaz
Lucy and I would love furiously and fight furiously.
Desi Arnaz
Lucy is such a perfectionist.
Desi Arnaz
Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.
Desi Arnaz
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.
Desi Arnaz
Paddy Ashdown Quotes
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
Paddy Ashdown
I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.
Paddy Ashdown
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Paddy Ashdown
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Paddy Ashdown
I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
Paddy Ashdown
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Paddy Ashdown
I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
Paddy Ashdown
I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
Paddy Ashdown
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
Paddy Ashdown
It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
Paddy Ashdown
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
Paddy Ashdown
It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
Paddy Ashdown
It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
Paddy Ashdown
Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
Paddy Ashdown
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
Paddy Ashdown
People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
Paddy Ashdown
Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
Paddy Ashdown
Politics is compromise.
Paddy Ashdown
The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
Paddy Ashdown
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Paddy Ashdown
Paddy Ashdown
I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.
Paddy Ashdown
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Paddy Ashdown
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Paddy Ashdown
I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
Paddy Ashdown
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Paddy Ashdown
I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
Paddy Ashdown
I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
Paddy Ashdown
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
Paddy Ashdown
It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
Paddy Ashdown
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
Paddy Ashdown
It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
Paddy Ashdown
It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
Paddy Ashdown
Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
Paddy Ashdown
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
Paddy Ashdown
People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
Paddy Ashdown
Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
Paddy Ashdown
Politics is compromise.
Paddy Ashdown
The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
Paddy Ashdown
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Paddy Ashdown
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