Stephen Frears famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.

  • To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

  • There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

  • I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

  • If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  • My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

  • I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.

  • Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.

  • Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us.

  • It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.