Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this? (on Moulin Rouge)
- Ewan McGregor(on working with Orson Welles on Jane Eyre (1944)) You can not battle an elephant. Orson was such a big man in every way that no one could stand up to him. On the first day at 4 o`clock, he strode in followed by his agent, a dwarf, his valet and a whole entourage. Approaching us, he proclaimed, "All right, everybody turn to page eight." And we did it, though he was not the director.
- Joan FontaineI didn`t want to have my wife in the movie snatched by Robert Redford. Besides, to show, in the end, that the million dollars didn`t mean anything to the guy by having him buy at an auction an elephant, or whatever the fuck it was, for a million bucks? I mean, the millionaire`s already jammed your wife, man, keep the cash! - On why he turned down Woody Harrelson`s part in Indecent Proposal (1993).
- Charlie Sheen(about a game called "Tig" made up as a prank on Elijah Wood early in the shooting of "The Lord of the Rings":) "So we -- the three of us (Billy Boyd, Monaghan, and Sean Astin) -- were constantly getting it right. And every time Elijah tried a new way of tigging, we`d say, `No, Elijah, you can`t tig on a tog, you can`t tag on a tig, you have to do an elephant impression if you`re gonna tig Billy." (He adds that the prank went on for a year before the three `fessed up.) (December 14, 2003)
- Dominic MonaghanBut my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
- Isabella RosselliniI get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
- Stephen FryPlastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.
- Patricia HeatonWords are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is "elephant".
- Charles Chaplin(on The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)): The original script was ridiculous, with elephant charges and girls screaming round in the jungle. When David Lean arrived, with a new screenwriter, it became a very different thing. I saw Nicholson as an effective part, without ever really believing in the character. However, it paid off; it was a huge success and I got an Oscar for it, though I don`t think it made an enormous difference in my career.
- Alec GuinnessIf you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
- Desmond TutuI meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant`s faithful, one hundred percent.
- Dr. Seuss(on working with Orson Welles on "Jane Eyre") You can not battle an elephant. Orson was such a big man in every way that no one could stand up to him. On the first day at 4 o`clock, he strode in followed by his agent, a dwarf, his valet and a whole entourage. Approaching us, he proclaimed, "All right, everybody turn to page eight." And we did it, though he was not the director.
- Joan FontaineGod is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.
- Pablo PicassoWhen you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it`s best to let him run.
- Abraham LincolnPrior to Elephant I`d taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there`s not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn`t really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true.
- John RobinsonThe question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
- David AttenboroughRace and hip hop is kind of the elephant in the room.
- Martin JohnsonYou have to permit based on the reserves you have, but this is elephant country,
- Tim ArnoldA true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
- Abdi AbdirahmanKeep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
- Abraham MaslowTo the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge.
- Abram SacherA camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
- Alfred DelaneyIn the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
- Allan AndersenWell, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.
- Alois FabryShallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
- Amanda KobesIf you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
- Angel AcebesThe concern we have is that there are a lot of companies that don`t see it coming. This is a big elephant. It`s coming right at the American manufacturer. Based on input from many sources, we are guessing 40 percent or more of the manufacturing industry doesn`t get it.
- Art LunaAn elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
- Ashley Bakerant on an elephant`s fanny.
- Barb GriffinIt`s about a real-life safari through Africa going after this huge, bull elephant. After all sorts of trials and tribulations, Scotty has this elephant in his cross hairs.
- Barbara BoneMy father started out as a circus `leaper`. He`d run down a ramp, jump over an elephant and land on a mat. 3 He was a singer, a dancer, an acrobat, a trapeze artist, a clown, a comedian, and also a strong man. He did a little bit of everything, because the more you did the more you made. He was 5`5" and weighed 220 pounds. He was very light on his feet, though: he was known as the Njinsky of acrobats. The height he could get was incredible.
- Donald O'Connor