Quotes About Substance

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

I am not into the number games but wish to do meaningful roles.

I'm far more interested in putting a little more meat into the lyrics than some people are.

The content has to be good; medium doesn't matter to me.

Drugs scared me.

You can't have a beauty scene for beauty's sake.

It doesn't matter about the length of the role. I don't do films for the number of scenes. I go for the quality of my character in the film and the impact that I will have.

Cinema is not about wearing 'bikni' and showing 'six packs'... All these are secondary.

My work should speak, not being spotted on Page 3.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.

Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?

Drinking and partying never appealed to me in lyrics - they don't have a lot of meaning behind them.

How sad that so much is judged on appearance, rather than substance.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

Digital physics had reigned supreme since before he'd been born, and its dictums were as incontrovertible as they were absurd. Numbers didn't just describe reality; numbers were reality, discrete step functions smoothing up across the Planck length into an illusion of substance.

informed its readers that research in India 'proved' that addicts died within three months

It was the perfect social drug. Unlike morphine, cocaine did not require a hypodermic, and was easy to take in situ, snorted from the knuckles or off nail files; chewing gum masked the teeth-grinding side-effect, and afterwards, alcohol calmed the sleep-depriving frenzy.

I had a second drink to wipe out the raw taste of the first.

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

There is no substance which is not a poison; all are poisonous. Only the dose determines.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

I think, at the end of the day, if voters don't see the substance and the merit of the policies you're advocating, it won't matter what you do on social media.