Distinctly Quotes

(My characters) all start with rhythms and sounds. Once I hear the voice and get into the rhythm, the attitude and the physicality just come out on their own. Ching Change, the Church Lady and Hans have a meter and pitch that are distinctly their own.

On her character in Dhoom:2 (2006): "It`s the kind of character I have never essayed before. Sunehiri, my character in the film, is distinctly different from any other character you have seen me play. That`s what makes her exciting to me. For the first time in my life I went through a bit of a fitness regime. Contrary to popular belief, right since modeling, to the (Miss World) title, to films, I have never been a fitness freak or exercised." (October 2006)

On preparing his role as young Karol Wojtyla for Pope John Paul II (2005) (TV): "I was blessed enough to meet Pope John Paul when I was 22 years old in the Vatican; I had that privilege. My mother took me to visit him, and I remember distinctly his incredible charisma and personal charm and his warmth and compassion. You felt it immediately the minute you met him, and that spirit I came away with, having met the man, is something that I`ve been constantly working on to infuse the character with. My mother is a very devout Catholic. Her criticism will be the one I pay the most attention to."

(When interviewer asks if he thought he had a hit on his hands) "We had been dragged across a cheese grater, face down, for two solid years, and we thought we had the biggest money-losing film in history. Then we had our first preview screening in Minneapolis, and there was a woman sitting behind me - I had no idea who she was: a Minneapolis housewife, maybe - who narrated the entire film. She was like a Pez dispenser: everything just popped out of her mouth. I just kind of leant my chair back so I could hear what she was saying. I remember distinctly the moment when Jack and Rose are shaking hands when they are about to part, and Rose is saying, `You`re very presumptuous,` and the woman sitting behind me is saying, `Yes, but you`re not letting go of his hand, are you?` That was the moment when I knew the movie was communicating exactly the way it was meant to."

But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I`m not going to go to bed hungry, I`m not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.

We`re absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That`s part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we`re such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we`re not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago.

Though the (economic data) have been mixed, they`ve been more negative than positive, and the outlook for the risks the economy faces is distinctly on the downside. The Fed has more to gain by erring on the side of accommodation.

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

Art is man`s distinctly human way of fighting death.

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.

We now realize that there are distinctly different types of galaxy disks,

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.

I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk. There is a right way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one. We would fain take that walk, never yet taken by us through this actual world, which is perfectly symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world; and sometimes, no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.