Brain Surgery Quotes - Page 2

• I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

  Rosanne Cash

  Parent, Brain, Want

  "Rosanne Cash Runs Down Her Father's 'List'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 5, 2009.

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• [Doctor Strange] is difficult, he's arrogant, but he's kind of brilliant and charming and you'd think, "Yeah, I'd want him on my head if I needed brain surgery." He's good enough to warrant his arrogance and he respects other people but not when he thinks he's right and he'll just do what he deems needs to be done when he knows or feels that he's right and the problem from humility's point of view is that he is right, he's really really good at his job.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Jobs, Humility, Thinking

  "‘Doctor Strange': Benedict Cumberbatch on His Strange Journey to Becoming the Sorcerer Supreme". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. September 27, 2016.

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• So long as I get some sleep and get to take care of myself and eat healthy and that sort of thing, I'm OK. I'm not out there digging ditches and it's not brain surgery.

  Lisa Rinna

  Sleep, Long, Healthy

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• The interesting thing with acting, actually, is that you get to be so many different people that you get to do so much research on so many different things that I've learned so much about brain surgery and about astrophysicist-type of things and traveling to amazing parts of the world.

  Carla Gugino

  Interesting, People, Brain

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• Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably have dabbled in drugs. There may be some, judges and lawyers involved in the case could have been involved. So it's a problem in all society.

  Dave Parker

  Sports, People, Judging

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Objectivity, Ideas, Self

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• When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along.

  Clint Eastwood

  Brain, Down And, Sitting Down

  "Clint Eastwood As a Changeling". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2008.

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• With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.

  Micky Dolenz

  Brain, World, Drummer

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• Brain surgery is not like politics and vice versa.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Brain, Vices, Vice Versa

  "The Fix Live". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 12, 2016.

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• What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?

  Christopher Willard

  Thinking, Make You Think, Brain

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• Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

  Lake Bell

  Movie, Art, Brain

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. September 2, 2011.

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• Soccer isn't brain surgery, have fun.

  Michelle Akers

  Soccer, Fun, Brain

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• The fact that there is no such thing as a perfect anti-sepsis does not mean that one might as well do brain surgery in a sewer.

  Robert Solow

  Mean, Perfect, Brain

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• This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in all black left the whole scene burgundy.

  Lil Wayne

  Black, Brain, Ems

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• Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!

  Joe McNally

  Brain, Wonderful, Surgery

  Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.100, Pearson Education

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• This isn't brain surgery; it's just television.

  David Letterman

  Brain, Television, Surgery

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• If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.

  Carter Burwell

  Brain, Directors, Shooting

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• There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

  John Powell

  Brain, Rockets, Myth

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• It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Funny, Brain, Nuclear

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.

  Jasper Fforde

  Mistake, Smart, Dirty

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• 'Why do you think it is...', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?' [Dr. Cook answered,] 'No margin for error.'

  Michael J. Fox

  Science, Thinking, Errors

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• I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

  Denis Leary

  Tables And Chairs, Comedian, Brain

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