Quotes About Inspiration

I'm really pleased with the way my career is shaping up. How many actresses get a chance to work with legends like Mani Ratnam and Sanjay Leela Bhansali?

I'm very pleased to be recognising International Women's Day, a day that celebrates the achievements of women across the world.

The beautiful thing about cycling is that it is so accessible and that pleased me when I was younger because you felt like you could almost touch the athletes.

When Cristiano burst on to the scene here in Manchester, he spent a good chunk of his early career here and enjoyed so much success. That's why it was a dream of mine to play for Manchester United and I'm very pleased to be here because it's a childhood dream come true.

Some songs take months to get right, but 'Let Her Go' was so easy. I was no more pleased with it than any other song I'd written.

I am always pleased to talk about Buffon. He is an extraordinary player, a professional with values.

I suppose the thing I'm quite pleased about is that I am, I would hope, a role model for girls and younger women who are thinking about doing science.

Success for me is to write what I think is a good song. When I'm pleased with it, that, for me, is a magical moment. I never lost that buzz.

I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret life, and that is something that pleases me. I have to try and make something out of it.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

If what I say or what I do affects others who look up to me as a role model, that pleases me so much.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

Find one note on the instrument that pleases you, and then find another note that also pleases you.

Rahman is very very director friendly. He is ever ready to go whichever the director wants, the story wants, depending on the kind of movie or the music you want, and within that he finds his niche. It is a constantly complementary process. At the end of the day he is not pleasing you, he has to please himself.

People in my state, Kerala, have started playing hockey, which is very pleasing to see.

It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

Whether for company or isolation or just to make it a pleasurable experience, I have music in my ears all the time. I tend to listen to the same things, so I don't really pay too much attention to it. But it's there, and it's nice, and I do pay more attention to it than I probably should. I think, 'How can I use this music in something?'

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

It's a guilty pleasure that things I loved as a kid I now have the power to put into motion and up on screen.

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do. That's a great pleasure.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind.