Top 100 Rupert Quotes
#1. I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?
Tom Hanks
#2. So yes, I do want to try and keep things going if I can. I have a few things brewing ... And if it doesn't happen, I did buy an ice cream van a while ago. So I always have that to fall back on.
Rupert Grint
#3. To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
Rupert Everett
#4. Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.
Rupert Holmes
#6. I am a really big Harry Potter fan and I've seen all the sets, I've lived Harry Potter and I don't think it's destroyed the books at all, I think it's really spot on.
Rupert Grint
#7. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books. Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like weve both got red hair, we both like sweets, weve both got lots of brothers and sisters. Ive got one brother and three sisters, and both scared of spiders.
Rupert Grint
#8. We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done.
Rupert Murdoch
#9. The urge to act became the overriding force in my life. It thrilled me. There's a moment with acting when you're in the groove, and you and what you're trying to do are seamlessly one. That happens sometimes, and I'm really happy it can happen to me.
Rupert Graves
#10. It was only when the light in her eyes was extinguished, at the mention of her father, that Rupert realized how brightly it had burned.
Eva Ibbotson
#11. The mind, the body and the world are made out of Consciousness but Consciousness is not made out of them. It is made out of itself. Therefore everything is made only out of Consciousness.
Rupert Spira
#12. I've loved the whole process. From previews to rehearsals, I'm in the best company. I've done one West End show before this but the excitement here ... it's incredible. It's been a real education working on this, I don't feel worthy. The role is over the top, bold and ridiculous.
Rupert Grint
#13. The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son. Then:
"Oh, Rupert, darling," she exclaimed in tones of theatrical despair, "don't you see? The game's up!
Eva Ibbotson
#14. From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.
Rupert Everett
#15. A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out all the years.
Rupert Brooke
#16. It's always nice to have people say you're good-looking. But I do get told I'm not right for parts because I'm too good-looking.
Rupert Penry-Jones
#17. When feeling is divested of the feeler and the felt, it shines as love; when seeing is divested of the seer and the seen, it shines as beauty.
Rupert Spira
#18. I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.
Rupert Murdoch
#19. One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
Rupert Murdoch
#20. My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.
Rupert Penry-Jones
#21. We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.
Rupert Murdoch
#22. The fig tree had dropped its fruit all over the ground. Ripe figs lay in the dust, exploded, bloody, as if the sky had rained organs.
Rupert Thomson
#23. A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.
Rupert Holmes
#24. I'm a Friend of Rupert, sing it loud and clear! If you're a Friend of Rupert, then give a great big cheer!
Kyrja
#25. I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.
Rupert Holmes
#26. Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
Rupert Brooke
#27. It's just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else.
Rupert Graves
#28. I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.
Rupert Everett
#29. Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.
Rupert Murdoch
#30. So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own.
Rupert Sanders
#31. Mrs Downs, a large sad lady who described herself, to Rupert's delight, as bulky but fragile, now came four mornings a week to clean the house. She was one of those people who habitually looked on the black side of everything with a cheerfulness that bordered upon the macabre.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
#32. Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?
Rupert Murdoch
#33. What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?
Rupert Murdoch
#34. Down the blue night the unending columns press
In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow
Rupert Brooke
#35. At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.
Rupert Murdoch
#36. There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.
Rupert Sheldrake
#37. The strong man lit a cigarette. It looked too frail for his hand. They looked like King Kong and Fay Wray, that hand, that cigarette. There was a movie going on right under his nose and he didn't even know. The guy had about one brain cell and he was doing time in it.
Rupert Thomson
#38. If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.
Rupert Everett
#39. When I read the books, I imagined that the family of Ron Weasley was my family.
Rupert Grint
#40. To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.
Rupert Sheldrake
#41. The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.
Alfred Rupert Hall
#42. I always think people who stretch themselves are interesting. That's something to admire, isn't it?
Rupert Evans
#43. Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
Ted Turner
#44. Secure the hearts of the nation's menopausal millions, Eileen knew, and no jury would dare convict her.
Rupert Smith
#45. Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People - though perhaps it was only women - seemed to make so much of it. As if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to.
Barbara Pym
#46. No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.
Rupert Murdoch
#47. Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda - worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.
Keith Olbermann
#48. Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.
Rupert Everett
#49. I'd best head to the library. Research beckons.
Rupert Giles
#50. To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.
Rupert Sanders
#51. He'd learned something. Life was booby-trapped and there was no easy passage through. You had to jump from colour to colour, from happiness to happiness. And all those possible explosions in between. It could be all over any time.
Rupert Thomson
#52. I think what we're trying to do as filmmakers is make a big, gritty, raw, epic movie and within that show things graphically in a way that they haven't been seen in that world before.
Rupert Sanders
#53. I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations.
Rupert Holmes
#54. Fall to your knees and thank God for Fox News. Pray for Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch. Pray for them. Pray for strength and spine, and pray that everybody involved has chicken salad for lunch so it doesn't clog anybody's arteries. Keep them going.
Glenn Beck
#55. Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.
Rupert Penry-Jones
#56. The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he is a criminal. But he is also a crime fighter. That makes him an extremely potent character to personify the hypocrisy of a culture that is both moralistic and corrupt.
Rupert Everett
#57. I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
Rupert Murdoch
#58. There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.
Rupert Everett
#59. Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.
Rupert Everett
#60. A kiss makes the heart young again a wipes out all the tears.
Rupert Brooke
#61. I'm a sex machine to both genders. It's all very exhausting. I need a lot of sleep.
Rupert Everett
#62. Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it.
Rupert Murdoch
#63. The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.
Rupert Murdoch
#64. A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or - startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up - on their telephone, on their smart phone.
Rupert Murdoch
#65. I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.
Rupert Everett
#66. There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.
Rupert Brooke
#67. The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.
Rupert Grint
#68. In ignorance I am something; in understanding I am nothing, in love I am everything.
Rupert Spira
#69. We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis on the ... the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work.
Rupert Murdoch
#70. I have to admit that, until recently, I was somewhat wary of the (global) warming debate. I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue.
Rupert Murdoch
#72. Rupert Clockenwall seemed to have been too bland a soul to come back from the grave on a haunt.
Dean Koontz
#73. Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.
Rupert Grint
#74. Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.
Rupert Murdoch
#75. It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words - almost as though one were inventing them.
Rupert Hart-Davis
#76. Things at home didn't change much. I still have to clean my own room!
Rupert Grint
#77. I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.
Rupert Sanders
#78. Pardon me for finding the glass half full.
Rupert Giles
#79. The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
Rupert Murdoch
#80. Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.
Rupert Grint
#82. The true lovers of humanity are those who put on the uniform with regret, fight like hell when they wear it, take it off without rejoicing, but hang it where it can be got at if necessary, and remember that they must still stand watch in civilian clothes over the trophies of victory.
Rupert Hughes
#83. Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.
Rupert Sanders
#84. He had died for his beliefs; chief among them was the very Hugglestonian one that bravery could replace armour, and that Klatchians would turn and run if you shouted loud enough.
Terry Pratchett
#85. I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.
Rupert Sheldrake
#86. But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasn't even in the running for failure!
Rupert Holmes
#87. Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.
Charlie Munger
#88. Because he cared for her. If he were completely honest, he didn't want Rupert to marry her, because he wanted to marry her himself.
Melanie Dickerson
#89. I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.
Rupert Murdoch
#90. I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.
Rupert Sheldrake
#91. Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet.
Rupert Murdoch
#92. I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.
Rupert Sheldrake
#93. Striding up to him, Wilhelm drew his fist back and landed a clean blow to Rupert's jaw. Rupert reeled, and after two wobbly backward steps, hit the floor on his backside. He raised a hand to his face. "Feel better?" "No. Get up so I can hit you again.
Melanie Dickerson
#94. One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.
Rupert Grint
#95. So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.
Rupert Murdoch
#96. The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.
Rupert Murdoch
#97. It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.
Rupert Grint
#98. Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it ...
Rupert Sheldrake
#99. Some of our businesses use more energy than others, but our strategy everywhere is the same.. first, reduce our use of energy as much as possible. Then, switch to renewable sources of power where it makes economic sense. And, over time, as a last resort, offset the emissions we can't avoid.
Rupert Murdoch
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