Douglas Kirkland Quotes

#1. When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

Dave Chappelle

#2. Chanel is here forever. She changed fashion, she changed culture, and she changed how people dress.

Douglas Kirkland

#3. When you look at my pictures, you are seeing my life.

Douglas Kirkland

#4. I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them.

Douglas Kirkland

#5. I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.

Douglas Kirkland

#6. If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.

Gary Bettman

#7. We [Libyans] support the Palestinian resistance, and all the world supports this. We support their just cause, but we are against terrorism.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#8. I will refine somebody in a minor way, but I don't want to totally change them. I don't want them to look like plastic dolls.

Douglas Kirkland

#9. Started out, Funny, sexy, zaftig Margaret Cho ... What is zaftig? Isn't that German for big fat pig? I guess I was lucky- zaftig is kind of a nice word. It could have been, Funny, sexy, OBESE Margaret Cho.

Margaret Cho

#10. I always considered, with every shoot, I was on trial; every time I pick up my camera and start out on the relationship, I am at degree zero. There is no coasting.

Douglas Kirkland

#11. The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement.

Douglas Kirkland

#12. Sure, sir, I will," I promised, "but I just want to tell you first that Jesus loves you." While

Craig Keener

#13. Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.

Douglas Kirkland

#14. I'mma tell a lie under oath.

Future

#15. The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

Lou Henry Hoover

#16. It's fundamental to succeed in coming into contact with your subject. Whether it's a big Hollywood star or a passer-by in the street, it makes no difference.

Douglas Kirkland

#17. Respect and mutual respect are important. I, for instance, often show my latest work so that people can see how I work.

Douglas Kirkland

#18. Others will notice you, Joclyn. But, you can't let it change who you are deep inside. Have fun for you, not the people around you.

Rebecca Ethington

#19. I did photograph Angelina Jolie up in Vancouver when she was making 'Life Or Something Like It', and they gave me the drawings they wanted me to photograph of her up there, but she didn't really care for them that much, and ultimately they weren't even used.

Douglas Kirkland

#20. When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', their career skyrocketed. As a photographer, you were very empowered; people came to you, bowing to you and what you represented.

Douglas Kirkland

#21. You must adapt to the situation. This is where the pictures come from.

Douglas Kirkland

#22. Love is not measured by what you receive, Mary, but by what you give.

Sarah Holman

#23. I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.

Douglas Kirkland

#24. I'll photograph weddings, friends - I'm not too good for anything.

Douglas Kirkland

#25. And those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of the President. And a lot of people don't want to say that. They'll say, God, don't be attacking Obama. Well, this is Obama's deal and it's Obama that's responsible for this fear in America.

Steve Wynn

#26. At our core, we just want to know that we matter ...

Lauren Bowles

#27. Chanel is everywhere. Pick up a magazine. You'll find Chanel all over it. That's the imprint that she had. I mean, she did so much.

Douglas Kirkland

#28. Remember this your lifetime through:
Tomorrow there will be more to do.
And failure waits for all who stay
With some success made yesterday.
Tomorrow you must try once more,
And even harder than before.

John Wooden