Quotes About Lawrence Of Arabia

#1. I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

#2. Avatar is a watershed movie. We'll always refer to Lawrence of Arabia in the same way. We'll always look at Avatar and say, "That's about as good as it gets." It's an enormous advance, in every way, shape and form, of movie making.

William Shatner

#3. I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.

Brendan Fraser

#4. 'Lawrence of Arabia' is a film that anyone wanting to become an actor should watch at least six hundred times.

Sid Haig

#5. Like so many Boomers, I saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. I'm not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us.

Mary Doria Russell

#6. Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.

Michael Pitt

#7. They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a moustache. It was all luck.

Omar Sharif

#8. I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

Baz Luhrmann

#9. The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!

Vera Wang

#10. I have never connected with 'Gone With the Wind.' 'Lawrence of Arabia' leaves me cold.

Stephen Hunter

#11. I don't like movies that are shot on green screen much, you know. I mean, I know that's the thing to do, and I know that it's getting. I'll put it this way; David Lean would probably kill himself, you know, again if he knew that people were watching Lawrence of Arabia on a telephone.

Billy Bob Thornton

#12. My favorite movie is Lawrence Of Arabia. But that's a long, long movie. So although I've seen it several times, it's not as fun as Jaws.

Paul F. Tompkins

#13. I don't like extremely long movies. I tend to get a bit impatient. There are definitely exceptions, like 'Lawrence of Arabia,' but for the most part, I feel that movies should usually be shorter and not longer.

David Benioff

#14. Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.

Steven Spielberg

#15. I never met Peter O'Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' is one that nobody who saw it will ever forget.

Michael Korda

#16. All men dream: but not equally. Those that dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. - T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia

Ash Maurya

#17. Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

Christine Baranski

#18. Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

Billy Joel

#19. I'll never know what my life would have been like if they hadn't made Lawrence of Arabia. What would I be? I would maybe have 10 children, a very fat wife. I would be very fat myself. I don't know.

Omar Sharif

#20. In his introduction to Charles M. Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta, T. E. Lawrence attempted to describe the character of the desert Arabs that both he and Doughty had admired. "They are the least morbid of peoples," Lawrence wrote, "who take the gift of life unquestioningly, as an axiom.

David Berlinski

#21. Regaining the Champions Cup is not going to be easy.

Luis Figo

#22. There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

Alan Greenspan

#23. I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

Bette Midler

#24. At night when I can't sleep, I play blackjack online until I get tired or I lose my money.

Nicky Hilton

#25. You will always love, and you will always be loved

Oscar Wilde

#26. A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.

T.E. Lawrence

#27. You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#28. They have said that the Lilim were dead before now, but they have always lied. The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow into the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe who will grow to slay me.

Neil Gaiman

#29. Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

Yoko Ono

#30. Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.

T.E. Lawrence

#31. My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.

Lauren Graham

#32. The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.

Dorothy Day

#33. Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.

T.E. Lawrence

#34. My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs.

Steve Earle