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Moments Quotes

Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It’s just that constant strangeness. I think it’s a very real thing.

– Jason Schwartzman

It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn’t working.

– Jeffrey Eugenides

It’s incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

– Jason Fried

We shoot with three cameras, try to shoot both sides of coverage if possible. That allows the actors to overlap and to find moments that feel more authentic and real than what you sometimes would normally get in a scripted drama that’s shot more classically. And that’s something in ‘Parenthood’ that has evolved.

– Jason Katims

When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don’t have drama or sad moments, then the comedy turns into a clowning kind of situation.

– Jaime Camil

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don’t think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I’m just not going to be able to pull this off.

– Jessica Lange

The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You’re allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.

– Jennifer Aniston

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

– Jean Rostand

I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you’re going to wish you held onto longer.

– Joe Nichols

Where humanity is going to find itself in, say, 20, 30, 40, or 50 years would be very difficult to predict, I think. There are moments, of course, when you think that it’s going from bad to worse, but there are other moments when you think that human efforts are really flowering into something really fantastic.

– John Hurt

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

– Jules Renard

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

– Jean Cocteau

I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.

– Harry Lloyd

One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting ‘Superbad’ with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges.

– Jonah Hill

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

– Henry Drummond

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

– Ian Williams

I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.

– Jonathan Kozol

There are moments when everything goes well, but don’t be frightened.

– Jules Renard

I’ve had a lot of ‘aha’ moments, but the big ‘aha’ about growing older is the mental freedom.

– Isabella Rossellini

The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it.

– Judith Martin

I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.

– Jason Silva

I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room… there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor.

– Anupam Kher

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

– Ashley Montagu

I have bad-mom moments all the time. Sometimes I have the wrong reaction, but I try to remember to pull back and think about it. Even when I make the mistake, I’m able to then go, ‘Oh, okay, let’s do this again.’

– Brooke Shields

If you’re really being honest with yourself when you’re acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

– John C. Reilly

Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

– Aaron Ashmore

I had my moments for sure but I wasn’t confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you’d find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

– Andre Agassi

For me, it is especially important to maintain my interior life. My spirituality, my connectedness. That is the way I think. That is the way I deal with life and tough moments. I keep in touch with something bigger than me. And I connect with people who have an interior life – a connection with something bigger than them.

– Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

– Jim Morrison

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

– Al Boliska

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