German Quotes

I don't think peroxide-blond hair is a beneficial look for me.

I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.

I always approach film as a fan.

Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.

As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn't really matter.

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.

Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.

They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

All good ideas arrive by chance.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.