Top 100 Quotes About Nolan
#1. Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.
Nolan Ryan
#2. My dad likes to tease me over this. We weren't there at Fenway, and it wasn't a consequential game, but Trot Nixon let a ball go through his legs, and from that moment on, I hated Trot Nixon. Really irrational. Based in nothing. But did not like him.
Katie Nolan
#3. Needless to say, I have more no-hitters than Nolan Ryan.
Ernie Harwell
#4. Each director is different. Clint Eastwood and Chris Nolan are completely different, and I need to adjust to the story and character and the director and just my duty as an actor.
Ken Watanabe
#5. When the critics come around it's always too late.
Sidney Nolan
#6. I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
Christopher Nolan
#7. My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.
Nolan Bushnell
#8. Honestly, I'm just so fed up with you. I'm at my wits' end.'
Since my mother is always at her wits' end, I'm surprised she had any wits left.
Han Nolan
#9. I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
Christopher Nolan
#10. There are times where people ask for a lock of your hair, but the truth is I have a lot of gratitude for my fans.
Nolan Gerard Funk
#11. I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy, there is always something about the character of Batman that is very elemental. There is a great powerful myth to the character and romantic element that draws from a lot of literary sources
Christopher Nolan
#12. When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
Steven Soderbergh
#13. ARTHUR: (indicates rain) Couldn't you have peed before we went under?
YUSUF: Sorry.
The front door OPENS and Eames climbs in, soaked.
EAMES: Bit too much free champagne before takeoff, Yusuf?
YUSUF: Ha bloody ha.
Christopher J. Nolan
#14. Each week the machine is spitting out a number for a new person or a new world within New York that you get to know. And the idea from the beginning was that some of the characters would stick around and become part of the lives of the show, and the world of the show itself will continue to grow.
Jonathan Nolan
#15. One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.
Sidney Nolan
#16. You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity
Christopher Nolan
#17. I don't believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.
Nolan Gould
#18. Because Naughty Dog relies on their facial team to hand animate the faces of each game character and they do such a remarkable job, I think you can be more realistic with your acting. It gives the story and what's happening to you the feeling that it's a game.
Nolan North
#19. You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor.
Katie Nolan
#20. Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.
Nolan Bushnell
#21. It's depend of the communication, I think it's very important to let the director make his own vision of the character, not making a studio movie. Look the Dark Knight it's totally the vision of Nolan.
Xavier Gens
#22. I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.
Jonathan Nolan
#23. I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages.
Jonathan Nolan
#24. I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.
Jonathan Nolan
#26. If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.
Nolan Bushnell
#28. The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.
William F. Nolan
#29. What happens now will not matter in the future.
Will Nolan
#30. The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,.
Christopher Nolan
#31. I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.
Christopher Nolan
#32. I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be.
Christopher Nolan
#33. Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.
Jonathan Nolan
#34. 'Uncharted' is the best job I've ever had. Film, television, whatever - it's without doubt the best. It's changed my life.
Nolan North
#35. My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and we would have to move around a lot. Trying to adapt to new schools and new places can be really tough.
Nolan Gould
#36. I guess I'm the only guy old enough to figure him (Nolan Ryan, 1-Hitter Game in 1991) out.
Dave Winfield
#37. Our survival depends on not just what we can get in life but also what we can give
Han Nolan
#38. Some people say that we only use 10% of our brains. I say that most only live 10% of their full potential in life.
Nolan R. Baum
#39. You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.
Christopher Nolan
#40. If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck
Nolan Bushnell
#41. I don't think there's room in video games for people to bring an ego. It's very frustrating for any actor to have someone who's a celebrity take over your place. Like the 'Uncharted' film, they're trying to find someone to play Nathan Drake. And it's like, why do they not think of us? We do this.
Nolan North
#43. I watch a lot of Disney. I want to catch 'Hannah Montana Forever.'
Nolan Sotillo
#45. And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in my face every time I did something wrong, but come on, when you live in a sin-free family with sin-free parents and a sin-free sister, well, you can't help but sin a little extra on their behalf.
Han Nolan
#46. Writing, for me, is a combination of objective and subjective approach. You take an objective approach at times to get you through things, and you take a subjective approach at other times, and that allows you to find an emotional experience for the audience.
Christopher Nolan
#47. I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.
Christopher Nolan
#48. In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out.
Nolan Gould
#49. Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging.
Christopher Nolan
#50. I remember the initial genesis quite clearly. My interest in dreams comes from this notion of realizing that when you dream you create the world that you are perceiving, and I thought that feedback loop was pretty amazing.
Christopher Nolan
#51. I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.
Nolan Bushnell
#52. My schedule is usually pretty busy, so when I wake up in the morning, first thing I usually do is turn on the TV and watch shows from the night before. I eat breakfast and watch TV and try to wake up.
Nolan Gould
#53. Women in sports television are allowed to read headlines, patrols sidelines, and generally facilitate conversation for their male colleagues. Sometimes, they even let us monitor the Internet from a couch.
Katie Nolan
#54. For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.
Nolan Ryan
#55. Garbage time is that time at the end of the game when the points don't really matter, and nothing you do can really affect the overall outcome, but the rookies usually get a chance to play on the big stage.
Katie Nolan
#56. Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
Adam McKay
#57. I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater wherever they would let me. Finally, I moved out here to Los Angeles and got on a show.
Nolan North
#58. My first motion capture game was with Sony - 'NBA: The Life.' It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he was the writer and director. He had a real vision of what this game was meant to be; it was a basketball game where I was the Jerry Maguire sports agent type guy. And it was great!
Nolan North
#59. Music is definitely something that I'd like to pursue. It's probably, I mean, the acting and music are the two biggest things in my life.
Nolan Sotillo
#60. One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
Nolan Ryan
#61. Of all the games I've done, the only time I've ever lost my voice was on 'Call Of Duty 2,' playing a rasping Russian captain on the Stalingrad level.
Nolan North
#64. Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.
Christopher Nolan
#65. Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time.
Nolan Ryan
#66. The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.
Nolan Bushnell
#67. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
Christopher Nolan
#68. I stare into the ruggedly handsome face, the eyes alight with a vast intelligence and that eerie, unearthly power. He's beautiful, so haunted with power it takes me a second to realize exactly what position Nolan Storm has put me in, and by extension, my family.
L.E. Sterling
#69. TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.
Jonathan Nolan
#70. I thought it was safer and easier to be one my own. But I don't think I was to be invisible anymore because-because it's lonely, and I don't want to be lonely. I don't want to be alone.
Han Nolan
#71. People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.
Steven Soderbergh
#72. I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool.
Nolan Bushnell
#73. You know, we certainly have a great budget on the show, but the expansions to world of the show really arise because, and this is kind of the idea of the premise of the show, where is each week you're kind of meeting ... It's random access.
Jonathan Nolan
#74. I went by Kyle, and I made friends on the team as Kyle. It went on for a pretty long time, until I went to a birthday party in a dress and all the hockey players were like ... 'Kyle?'
Katie Nolan
#75. 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next.
Jonathan Nolan
#76. Not too many professions out there that value forgetfulness. Prostitution, maybe. Politics, of course.
Jonathan Nolan
#77. I went to a dentist for a toothache, and it turned out his kids were in an acting school. We talked about it, and I decided to enroll at the same school. I was 14. I guess you could say I just got lucky.
Nolan Gerard Funk
#78. I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes.
Nolan Bushnell
#79. Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.
Nolan Bushnell
#80. There's something known as the Uncanny Valley where things look a little too real and you're not quite sure what you're looking at. It becomes weird like it did in 'The Polar Express,' where the eyes seem so realistic, and yet you know it's animated.
Nolan North
#81. I love crime procedurals. I always have. I love cop shows.
Jonathan Nolan
#82. I'd say that people give up because they don't know the possibilities that are out there for them, nor do they realize their potential.
Nolan R. Baum
#83. I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.
Jonathan Nolan
#84. Don't let ... anybody in the Cowboys organization fool you into thinking they support Greg Hardy. They don't. They support sacks.
Katie Nolan
#86. If you're one of the Disney kids, it's like you have to talk about having a promise ring, you know?
Nolan Gerard Funk
#87. The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.
Gabriel Mann
#88. The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
Nolan Bushnell
#89. I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time.
Nolan Bushnell
#90. Women were very, very good at 'Pong'. It was part of the dating scene. The number of people who told me they met their wife or husband playing 'Pong' was huge. They were shoulder to shoulder, talking and playing. It was body contact and verbal contact.
Nolan Bushnell
#91. Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.
Nolan Bushnell
#92. I'd get home at 3:30 A.M. from the bar after my shift ended at 1. I'd write jokes, film it, and then sleep. So I did that for two years.
Katie Nolan
#93. The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala.
Nolan North
#94. I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.
Christopher Nolan
#95. If Doctor Nolan asked me for the matches, I would say that I'd thought they were made of candy and had eaten them.
Sylvia Plath
#96. One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
Christopher Nolan
#97. I always liked performing in front of my parents' friends. My dad bought me a karaoke machine, and I would put on a Michael Jackson song like 'Thriller,' and I would come out with, like, a hat and a jacket, and, like, moonwalk in my socks, so I was always performing.
Nolan Sotillo
#98. For me, the attraction of TV is that you continue to get to tell those stories and refine those characters. The other thing is that TV, in the last years, got really, really, really good.
Jonathan Nolan
#99. I miss Boston so much and want to get back there someday.
Katie Nolan
#100. You never quite know what you're going to come back to and figure out how to make it work. You never quite know where that desire to finish something, or return to something in a fresh way, is going to come from. Every time I finished a film and went back and looked at it, I had changed as a person.
Christopher Nolan
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