Contemporaries Quotes

Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Léaud are my contemporaries.

My contemporaries in Israel have a love for life that`s amazing. There, there is not the luxurious and rich existence of material goods of Hollywood films, every day they struggle to survive, but they still have an enthusiasm difficult to find elsewhere.

Has appeared in two films about "Peter Pan" (Hook (1991) and Finding Neverland (2004)). Following his appearance in ""Hook", close friend and former roommate Gene Hackman began calling him "Hook" as a joke. The name stuck and his contemporaries call him by that nickname to this day.

I`m very lucky in that I haven`t cultivated fame. Which, from what I`ve seen of my contemporaries, takes an enormous amount of time. I have a lot of respect for people that do it and they`re successful at it ... Especially people that aren`t such talented actors. - Quote from 2001.

Doing my first movie, I realized I could get into real bad habits. If you`re the star, all you have to do is show up, and 20 people say, `Do you want anything? What is it? Let me get it for you.` Believe me, you get spoiled very quickly. I saw some of my contemporaries allow themselves to have that fame, thinking they could handle it. It messed them up.

(On friend Joan Crawford): She is five feet four, but she looks six feet on the screen. In a two-shot with anyone, even Gable, (Clark Gable), your eyes fix on her. She is imperious, yet with a childlike sparkle. She is haughty, yet tender. She has no great range as an actress, yet within the range she can perform better than any of her contemporaries.

Don`t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

I`ll only work with new people. If you stick with your contemporaries, you`re dead.

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one`s contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one`s way.

Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul`s.

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

Before the Spoonful, I had a successful career as an accompanist, and a lot of my contemporaries were starting to have their own success.

The Queens of the Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizardbrain Liam Lynch to make the video for `Burn the Witch,` a homemade affair that`s just in time for Halloween, ... For the band, playing both the roles of cast and crew paid ginormous dividends, in the form of a video that cuts the heads off all contemporaries (literally).

The Queens Of The Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizardbrain Liam Lynch to make the video for `Burn The Witch` , a home-made affair that`s just in time for Halloween. For the band, playing both the roles of cast and crew paid ginormous dividends, in the form of a video that cuts the heads off all contemporaries (literally).

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

(On his advice to aspiring actors) Be good to you`re fellow players: We are all in this together. Whether you are working, or in-between jobs, you need all the help you can get. I just read an interview with a very famous director who decided to slum a bit and try the other end of the camera. He reported that this acting thing is a stroll in the park and he was mystified as to what the big deal is. I`ve got a hint for him: What that little experiment missed is the part where you go 0 for 22 in auditions, spend 11 months wondering where the next paycheck is coming from, your mother suddenly has health problems that tap half of your cash reserves, your summer love from Shakespeare Under The Stars lands a network series, and you mentor (and probably the best actor you have ever seen) gives it up because he can`t get cast and has to feed the family. Factor that stuff in and then come tell me how easy it is. Try to remember that your contemporaries now will be the same 30 years from now. You need them. Treat them like family.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

I don`t know, I don`t really have a view about what my contemporaries are doing, except that I enjoy individual writers and so on.

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?