Barbara Broccoli Quotes

#1. I was really nervous, because I was certain it was going to be bigger than anything I'd ever done before [Skyfall]. But I was relieved when I actually discovered that there was a family atmosphere on the set, with a brother-sister team, Barbara [Broccoli] and Michael [Wilson] running it all.

Naomie Harris

#2. In the case of 'Blood Stone,' the producers, EON, Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, David Wilson and Gregg Wilson, had an idea for a story and had a lot of it done. And I came in, worked with them, fleshed it out.

Bruce Feirstein

#3. Barbara Broccoli was a great friend of my late wife's and continues to be someone who is very gracious with me, my family, and our life.

Pierce Brosnan

#4. I was at a party in London when I met Bond producer Barbara Broccoli. She introduced herself, and I didn't believe her name. So I just replied: 'Yeah, and I'm Cathy Carrot.' I think maybe I got off on the wrong foot!

Catherine Bach

#5. The God knows when to smile.

Euripides

#6. When men change, maybe Bond will change. But let's wait. I'm not holding my breath.

Barbara Broccoli

#7. There are truckloads of broccoli at this very minute descending on Washington. My family is divided. For the broccoli vote out there: Barbara loves broccoli. She has tried to make me eat it. She eats it all the time herself. So she can go out and meet the caravan of broccoli that's coming in.

George H. W. Bush

#8. The world is still sexist.

Barbara Broccoli

#9. I still love it, every day. I get up and I love going to work. I love seeing it all happen, and I admire the people that we work with. I just hope that the films will continue to entertain audiences, as they have done for 50 years.

Barbara Broccoli

#10. So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

Barbara Broccoli

#11. The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.

Barbara Broccoli

#12. We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.

Sharon Salzberg

#13. I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in my bed. That's what I want today. That's what I'll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness.

Christina Dodd

#14. Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.

Barbara Broccoli

#15. All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.

Barbara Broccoli

#16. People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

Barbara Broccoli

#17. I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

Barbara Broccoli

#18. I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible ... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.

Barbara Broccoli

#19. I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?

Malcolm Gladwell

#20. When I saw the rough cuts of 'The Village of Peace,' I was immediately intrigued and wanted to share this story on the global stage.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#21. Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.

Barbara Broccoli

#22. There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.

Barbara Broccoli

#23. Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. Langdon always ended this lecture with a reminder that Arab culture had also given mankind the word al-kuhl - the favorite beverage of Harvard freshmen - known as alcohol.

Dan Brown

#25. Bad movies are when people go, 'oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.'

Barbara Broccoli

#26. It's been such a huge part of my life, it's hard for me to separate it out. All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood. I was around these amazing people and went to exotic locations. The whole movie-making thing is so magical.

Barbara Broccoli

#27. In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.

Dudley Moore

#28. The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

Herbert V. Prochnow

#29. My father used to describe how he'd love going, early in the morning, out on a location and waiting for the trucks to arrive and the circus to come to town. That's what it's like, every day, when you're making a film. It's the magic.

Barbara Broccoli

#30. One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.

Barbara Broccoli

#31. I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

Barbara Broccoli

#32. Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.

Art Donovan

#33. Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.

Barbara Broccoli