The main thing is that the ‘C’ is silent, so it kind of starts with a ‘Z.’ Z-O-O-K-RIE. It’s Ukrainian, on my dad’s side. – Matt Czuchry
I’m a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls full of ridiculous, eccentric characters. – Lenny Abrahamson
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. – John Buchan
For you, it’s a silent movie. For us, it’s a talking movie because we had lines on set. There’s a lot of noise on set and music. We spoke in English, in French, in gibberish, but it was very alive. The challenge was tap dancing. – Jean Dujardin
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear. – Marquis de Sade
Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational. – Kevin Brownlow
Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space. – Leon Foucault
In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors’ gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points. – Laurie R. King
Every organization has issues and concerns which are known about by many people who choose to remain silent. – Margaret Heffernan
New-Year’s Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed. – Joanna Southcott
I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, ‘Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?’ – Jennifer Weiner
Eating American-style, you put the knife down and clang. Continental is silent and efficient. – Letitia Baldrige
Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It’s like a sculptor being forced to take up painting. – Kevin Brownlow
I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn’t take much – a gaze, an eyelash flutter – for the emotion to be vivid. – Jean Dujardin
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. – Sandra Day O’Connor
I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable. – Pamela Hansford Johnson
Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God’s word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ. – Ravi Zacharias
If the guardians of society, the protectors of ‘young persons,’ could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent. – Robert Green Ingersoll
I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I’m silent. If I’m not talking, leave me alone. – Pat Nixon
There’s only so long you can play the silent type standing in the background. ‘GoldenEye’ was good for that. I was the villain: James Bond was doing all the heavy lifting. I liked that. – Sean Bean