My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.
Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.
The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.
When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.
How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.
Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first Vogue cover. It was French Vogue - I think in ’87 or ’88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, "Oh, no. We’ve never had that before."
You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.
My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.
Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.
I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.
There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.
I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.
What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.
Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.
I'm a working-class person, working with class.
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