Quotes About Contrast

John Lydon must be more famous for his efforts on behalf of dairy products than his music.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

British drama can compete with America creatively. But the two systems are very different.

I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day.

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

I will go to a nice restaurant in Miami, and no one sitting at the tables will notice me or even know who I am. Then everyone in the kitchen comes out and wants to take a picture.

My life reads more like Proust than a tabloid.

I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.

In 'Sanju,' there are too many colours. Some other filmmaker could have taken a dark side to that story.

With no guillotine, 'A Tale of Two Cities' would have been a travel guide.

People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.

When you are a talkative and expressive person in real life, it definitely gets difficult to play someone who is so silent.

I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.

It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.

I've been around a lot of artists who are also good at business, and... one minute they'll sound like an artist, and the next minute, they'll sound like the characters in 'Mad Men.' Jay-Z's a very good businessman, and he talks about it and enjoys it, but he doesn't shift.

I'm tall in Sweden, but I'm huge in Hollywood.

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.

Man, we were so opposite. One guy sang high, the other low. One guy tall, one short. We were like a quartet without the two guys in the middle. If you were putting two guys together to make hit records, you wouldn't have picked Bobby and me.

In Manchester, you don't have proper tall buildings. Or in Munich.

I didn't really like light-skinned people. I'd always thought about a tall, dark, handsome guy. But Bob had something different. He was very disciplined, just like a father figure, which I respected, especially as my own father was away.

Maybe because she's smaller than me she might look taller.

A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball player is taller and more slender. So it is with redwoods. The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren't the largest ones.

I always looked the tallest when I was in the group. I look like a giant next to Cheryl. She's like a Polly Pocket, she's very petite.