Quotes of Workplace - somelinesforyou

“ Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it. ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning. ”

- Alanis Morissette

“ The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting. ”

- David Cronenberg

“ A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. ”

- Allan Beck

“ I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows. ”

- Paul Taylor

“ I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio. ”

- Ursula Andress

“ Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ I love being in the studio. ”

- Neil Finn

“ The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product. ”

- Grace Glueck

“ No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me. ”

- Helena Bonham Carter

“ I think about how audiences are going to respond to hooks and intros and certain lines when I'm in the studio recording. Bringing these songs to the stage is the ultimate fulfillment of the creative process. ”

- Kanye West

“ A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs. ”

- Alexander Payne

“ I think I have made an impact in the workplace and I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end. ”

- Paula Jones

“ I love that it's a risky and strange comedy. And it's one of those movies that hasn't been shredded by the studio system and watered down. ”

- Val Kilmer

“ The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in. ”

- Benny Green

“ In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression. ”

- Bela Lugosi

“ The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent. ”

- Dick Cheney

“ We allow no geniuses around our Studio. ”

- Walt Disney

“ Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge my batteries. ”

- Norman Rockwell

“ People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true. ”

- Enya

“ People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't. ”

- Alice Walker

“ What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions. ”

- Wim Wenders

“ Besides dancing at school and the studios, I'd written all these songs and had begun to play them at auditions. ”

- Suzanne Vega

“ All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie. ”

- Jackie Collins

“ If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy. ”

- Tim Burton

“ Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the "Normal" environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio. ”

- Joe Murray

“ There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living… a way in which life itself is sheer knowing. ”

- Laurens Van der Post

“ In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system. ”

- Ralph Fiennes

“ The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams. ”

- Suzanne Fields

“ I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day. ”

- Roger Ebert
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