Stanley Donen Quotes

#1. I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.

Julie Harris

#2. Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.

Damien Chazelle

#3. What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

Stanley Donen

#4. What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something ... that is not easy to do.

Stanley Donen

#5. People always say to me, 'You have such a clearly defined sense of style,' and when I hear it, I get crazed, because what I hear - and I know they mean it as a compliment - is that I have such a narrow vision that I can't get out of it.

Stanley Donen

#6. It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city that was glorious, that was unique and surprising, to get it, to put it on film you have to make choices and reject a lot of things so you're always wondering: 'Am I doing it right?'

Stanley Donen

#7. Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

Stanley Donen

#8. There is a visceral dislike of George Bush, and it's going to bring these guys together.

Terry McAuliffe

#9. I'm not planning on giving my kids any of my wealth. They know when their education is over, I'm pushing them out of the nest. The bird you see dead under the nest is the one who didn't think about the future.

Kevin O'Leary

#10. You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could put music in the picture! That's how it all began.

Stanley Donen

#11. I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.

Stanley Donen

#12. I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.

Stanley Donen

#13. You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.

Stanley Donen

#14. I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.

Stanley Donen

#15. Seen in its own right, a loving person's inner spirit is an angel of heaven, and while we are living in the body we are also in the company of angels, even though we are not aware of it; and once we are released from the body we join them.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#16. I think in the bridal world you definitely have to be on your toes at all times.

Austin Scarlett

#17. When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.

Stanley Donen

#18. You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#19. There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way anymore - it's disappearing little by little. Things change. We have to change with them. There's no point in liking or not liking it. It is what it is.

Stanley Donen

#20. There was never any point in my life when I wasn't called Mr. Donen. I'm told my first words were, 'Call me Mr. Donen.' But I suspect that's apocryphal. My mother, Mrs. Donen, tended to exaggerate.

Stanley Donen

#21. The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it's wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did.

Stanley Donen

#22. Lessee ... he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it.

Terry Pratchett

#23. You can never tell what ships are worth.

Stavros Niarchos

#24. Creation is much in need of ordering.

Richard Powers

#25. My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

Stanley Donen

#26. Nature is what you see plus what you think about it.

John French Sloan

#27. It's a one-to-one dialogue. You open your mouth and you're talking to 6 million people.

Derek Jameson

#28. I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything, to be in 'show business.'

Stanley Donen

#29. What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.

Stanley Donen

#30. We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.

David Agus

#31. Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

Nina Simone