J Alvarez Quotes

#1. I'm pretty demanding with myself and my work, and I always put a lot of pressure on myself. I try to do the best job I can every time.

Fede Alvarez

#2. You look good, you feel good. You feel good, you fight good.

Eddie Alvarez

#3. When I received my B. S. degree in 1932, only two of the fundamental particles of physics were known.

Luis Walter Alvarez

#4. Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.

Al Alvarez

#5. The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enormously gifted poet whose death came carelessly, by mistake, and too soon.

Al Alvarez

#6. I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.

Fede Alvarez

#7. We hadn't lost morale. But when you fight for four quarters, it's tough to always bounce back. The offense kept us in the game the last two weeks and to get out with a win feels really good.

Barry Alvarez

#8. 'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

Fede Alvarez

#9. Honestly, when you're writing you try to stay on the story, on the character's mind, trying to throw stuff at them. There is danger, and the scares have to kick in the right places with the drama. And you try not to do too much to try to create those moments. Those moments create themselves.

Fede Alvarez

#10. I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

Julia Alvarez

#11. I think a good actor will always know the character better than anybody.

Fede Alvarez

#12. You're like this frosting." She swiped another swirl of it on her finger, stood and leaned forward to touch it to his bottom lip. "Pretty, momentarily pleasurable, but with no real substance or sustenance.

Tracey Alvarez

#13. Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989.

Carlos Alvarez

#14. Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.

Julia Alvarez

#15. I write to find out what I am thinking.
I write to find out who I am.
I write to understand things.

Julia Alvarez

#16. Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.

Al Alvarez

#17. When you're auditioning for commercials, they're looking for a Latin guy in his 20s, and you'll show up, and it's a bunch of people who look just like you, and it's a little weird. More often than not, they're way better-looking. They're taller. They have way more abs than you do.

Frankie J. Alvarez

#18. I can't point to my work and say, 'This is my work.' My work lives in me, so when people criticize my work, they're also criticizing me. It's really hard to sort of divorce that sensitivity.

Frankie J. Alvarez

#19. My grandma was actually a pretty well-known opera singer in Cuba, and then my mom was a ballerina. Two of my three sisters are dancers, so we grew up in the arts.

Frankie J. Alvarez

#20. You put a lot of yourself into a character, so even though he's not you, in a sense it is you.

Frankie J. Alvarez

#21. The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

#22. Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.

Julia Alvarez

#23. When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

Julia Alvarez

#24. In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.

Fede Alvarez

#25. It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

Al Alvarez

#26. Even to an outsider like myself, not only in the theatre was such disunity evident, but in much else in government Spain. Alvarez del Vayo, Socialist Minister of Foreign Affairs, once asked, Why is it Spain's people are so great, but her leaders so small?

Langston Hughes

#27. We had some guys that abandoned their technique and abandoned some of the things that we just worked a month on,

Barry Alvarez

#28. My dad was very religious growing up and a little bit closed minded, and I think me being in the theater, two of my three sisters are dancers, so being in the arts world has changed and opened him up in a lot of ways.

Frankie J. Alvarez

#29. That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.

Fede Alvarez

#30. Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Al Alvarez

#31. Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.

Fede Alvarez

#32. When you're a director you always feel weird with another director watching over your shoulder.

Fede Alvarez

#33. 'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies.

Fede Alvarez

#34. The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.

Al Alvarez

#35. Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I put in theaters. That's my directors cut, there's no question about it.

Fede Alvarez

#36. I'm good at reading people.

Al Alvarez

#37. Usually you always see first cut is an extended version, because it's basically everything you shot, and you have that version and then you start cutting stuff out.

Fede Alvarez

#38. One of my first jobs was doing children's theater. I did it to get my union card.

Frankie J. Alvarez

#39. Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.

Luis Walter Alvarez

#40. I'm not much of a planner. I set a goal and there really is nothing else ... no plan B.

Eddie Alvarez

#41. The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States.

Carlos Alvarez

#42. I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo