Latest Leonard Nimoy Quotes from Interviews

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• It is important to understand what are you trying to capture with a camera. What you want to use this tool for. It helps to begin to search for and concentrate on thematic photography.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Photography, Trying, Important

• I am a great believer in what we've been told time and time again by people like Joseph Campbell, "find your bliss." Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it. Find your own way and make your own contribution. Find a way to make a contribution to this society because God knows we need contributions from the coming generation. This planet and this civilization is in need. I see it as a time of need.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Civilization, People, Needs

  Interview with Karleigh Moore, tech.mit.edu. April 1, 2014.

• If you are walking down the street, camera in your hand, loaded and ready to shoot. You see a person falling from a high building, either having fallen or jumped. That person is falling through space. You don't shoot that photograph unless the theme you are working on has to do with the effects of space on the human figure. If you simply photograph that event because it is an event that is happening, you're doing photojournalism.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Fall, Space, Hands

  Interview with Karleigh Moore, tech.mit.edu. April 1, 2014.

• I've been doing photography in one form or another for, oh golly, over seventy years. I don't carry cameras. I used to. For many years I carried cameras wherever I went. Photograph whatever I saw that was of interest. In the last years, I've only used cameras to explore thematic ideas which presented themselves first. And then bring out the cameras to try to explore that idea.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Photography, Ideas, Years

  Interview with Karleigh Moore, tech.mit.edu. April 1, 2014.

• Making photos is helpful of course to master the craft. To get comfortable with the camera. Learn what a camera can do and how to use the camera successfully. Doing exercises for example if you try to find out things that the camera can do that the eye cannot do. So that you have a tool that will do what you need to be done. But then once you have mastered the craft the most important thing is to determine why you want to shoot pictures and what you want to shoot pictures of. That's where the thematic issue comes to life.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Eye, Exercise, Issues

• Essentially, in photography, I think on two levels: one emotional and the other technical. The emotional impact has to do with looking for something dramatic happening in the photograph, something that reaches out and touches somebody in some way. And the technical is having to do with composition and framing - light and dark, light and shadow.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Photography, Dark, Emotional

• In general, we are sort of conditioned to see a different body type as acceptable and maybe look away when the other body type arrives.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Body Types, Different, Looks

  Source: www.npr.org

• There are studies that tell us that stress and lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem, severe dieting, binge dieting and binge eating can also be very damaging to a body and bring on various kinds of abnormalities.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Self Esteem, Stress, Dieting

  Source: www.npr.org

• There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred] Stieglitz. I draw from all of them. You're supposed to steal from the good ones.

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  Herbs, Photographer, Newton

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It's nice to get off the couch, throw the clothes on, add a little make-up and go back to work, every once in a while.

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  Nice, Clothes, Add

  Source: collider.com

• I love comedy. I'm not known for comedy, but I love it. I've done a lot of it, in my lifetime. But most people are surprised to hear that I made a funny movie.

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  People, Done, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

• I've enjoyed photography, ever since I was a teenager, and I'm still at it. I've had shows in various cities, around the country, and I have a number of pieces in permanent collections in museums that I'm very proud of.

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  Country, Photography, Teenager

  Source: collider.com

• The voice thing is a blessing that I was given. I've had opportunities to do voice work of all kinds. It was something that was given to me and I was able to make good use of it.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Blessing, Opportunity, Voice

  Source: collider.com

• I don't have a preference for bad people, no. I have an interest in playing a broad range of characters. Obviously, I'm mostly identified with a character who is very responsible, very solid and very intelligent, but there are plenty of questionable characters in my past career. I'm interested in exploring theatricality and characters with some dimension.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Character, Past, Intelligent

  Source: collider.com