Excitement Quotes - Page 12

• When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

  Antony Beevor

  London, Firsts, Novel

  4 Copy quote

• Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Real, Fighting, Talking

  "Interview:Benjamin Bratt" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 20, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on stage but when you get to the piano the excitement kicks in, you forget about being tired.

  Dave Brubeck

  Tired, Piano, Energy

  16 Copy quote

• On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.

  James Blunt

  Song, Teenager, Writing

  "Some Kind of Trouble and More". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.

  Sydney Brenner

  Challenges, Important, Gone

  7 Copy quote

• The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.

  Thomas Cech

  Views, People, Projects

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". EMBO reports interview, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn't work that often, but we run to the theater to see what he's up to, and with such delicious excitement. The same goes for Meryl Streep.

  Rosemarie DeWitt

  Running, Actors, Doe

  "The Features Of Rosemarie DeWitt". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 27, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was young enough to certainly realize the excitement of how popular 'Seinfeld' was.

  Tim DeKay

  Realizing, Enough, Young

  5 Copy quote

• People ask me what the appeal of 'True Blood' is and I think there are so many answers to that question, but I think that when there is so much excitement for what you do there is no way that that doesn't become palpable and comes shooting out like bullets.

  Michelle Forbes

  Thinking, Blood, People

  4 Copy quote

• The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).

  Manny Farber

  Sleep, Men, Hollywood

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.562, Library of America

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.

  Terry Gross

  Lying, Character, Over You

  8 Copy quote

• Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.

  Barry Hannah

  Long, Clubs, Glee

  4 Copy quote

• I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Hate, Expectations, Feelings

  4 Copy quote

• There is an excitement about having nightmares.

  Betsey Johnson

  Nightmare

  7 Copy quote

• I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.

  John McGahern

  Book, Thinking, Differences

  4 Copy quote

• The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Peace, Littles, Charm

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.6, Xist Publishing

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Lonely, Thinking, Thoughtful

  9 Copy quote

• If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

  Connie Nielsen

  Mean, Wish, Different

  4 Copy quote

• If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Loss, Finance

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

  Michael Rapaport

  Song, New York, Cities

  "Michael Rapaport’s Vision Quest". Interview with Steven Prigge, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 24, 2011.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.

  Howard Stringer

  World, Digital, Abandoned

  "CEO Howard Stringer sees Sony's future in 3-D". Interview with David Lieberman, www.usatoday.com. January 5, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

  Douglas Wilson

  Design, Wire, Six

  4 Copy quote

• There is such a cool vibe in Nashville. It is has the excitement of a big city, but also has this amazing small town feel. I have definitely come to call it my home, and have my favorite go-to spots. But most of all it's the people. The southern charm, and hospitality. And some great shopping never hurts. As fun as Music City is during the day, the real magic happens at night ... The lights, the energy, the music, how could you not love this town?

  Hayden Panettiere

  Hurt, Fun, Real

  18 Copy quote

• It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fighting, Ignorant, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2972, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

  Mia Love

  Dream, Growing Up, America

  "The America I know" by Mia Love, dailycaller.com. August 28, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source