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David Attenborough Quotes

Posted on July 20, 2011 by

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. – David Attenborough Quotes

An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. – David Attenborough Quotes

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. – David Attenborough Quotes

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. – David Attenborough Quotes

Crying wolf is a real danger. – David Attenborough Quotes

Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds. – David Attenborough Quotes

I don’t approve of sunbathing, and it’s bad for you. – David Attenborough Quotes

I don’t run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving. – David Attenborough Quotes

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. – David Attenborough Quotes

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals. – David Attenborough Quotes

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. – David Attenborough Quotes

It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it. – David Attenborough Quotes

It’s a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. – David Attenborough Quotes

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics. – David Attenborough Quotes

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. – David Attenborough Quotes

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. – David Attenborough Quotes

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant. – David Attenborough Quotes

The fundamental issue is the moral issue. – David Attenborough Quotes

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there’s a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. – David Attenborough Quotes

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? – David Attenborough Quotes

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what’s it all about. – David Attenborough Quotes

Well, I’m having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. – David Attenborough Quotes

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That’s what natural history programmes should be for. – David Attenborough Quotes

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you’re talking about. – David Attenborough Quotes

I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn ’til dusk, unless it’s a pigeon, which isn’t really wild, which might come and settle near them. – David Attenborough Quotes

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival. – David Attenborough Quotes

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. – David Attenborough Quotes

I’m absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don’t care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that’s what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time. – David Attenborough Quotes

I’m against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. – David Attenborough Quotes

I’m not in politics. – David Attenborough Quotes

I’ve been to Nepal, but I’d like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don’t think there’s anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit. – David Attenborough Quotes

If I can bicycle, I bicycle. – David Attenborough Quotes

In the old days… it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn’t have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn’t use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. – David Attenborough Quotes

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for – the whole thing – rather than just one or two stars. – David Attenborough Quotes

Charilze Theron Quotes

Posted on February 21, 2010 by

– “And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.”
– “And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn’t necessarily given to me, and that people didn’t necessarily think that I would be able to do.”
– “And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I’d be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.”
– “At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.”

– “At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.”

– “Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question – I struggle with it morally.”

– “Hey, I’m a girl, and we like to play dress-up.”

– “I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.”

– “I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.”

– “I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.”

– “I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don’t look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don’t think of them as like Charlize Theron films.”

– “I guess there are very few actors that I’ve worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you’ll have that chance and, if we didn’t do Italian Job together, there wouldn’t be another one that could be right.”

– “I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.”

– “I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it’s hard for me not to. I guess I’ve been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.”

– “I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it’s maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.”

– “I like what I do, and I’m very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don’t have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.”

– “I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
Charlize Theron

– “I mean, I’m new but I’ve always been very interested in film making process and I’ve been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested – that the producer part of me was natural.”

– “I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.”

– “I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.”