Golino Quotes & Sayings

I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque. — Valeria Golino

Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away. — Charles Van Doren

Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time. — Bill Gates

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. — Oscar Wilde

I'm an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of otherwise - then something happens inside my alien head. Other people have to decide whether or not I'm a good writer, but I do have the ability to write in different styles. — David Lagercrantz

As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions. — Valeria Golino

No matter how well you think you've hidden, you'll always leave behind a trace. And the more you try to hide that trace, the more obvious and troublesome it will become. — Gosho Aoyama

There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy. — Valeria Golino

I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that. — Valeria Golino

When I think of Italy now, I think of accessories, possessions, bad TV, fake boobs, BMWs. — Valeria Golino

Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story. — Lauren Myracle

Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can't see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path. Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want. — Elif Shafak

I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images. — Valeria Golino

So, how can I try to be someone I didn't really even know? — Gume Laurel III

What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema ... the form. — Valeria Golino

Elephants and grandchildren never forget. — Andy Rooney

Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls. — Gilbert Highet

They haven't changed Zach; you have. I think that each of us has. — Sarah Holman

'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life. — Valeria Golino

Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with. — Adoniram Judson

I really like playing the bad guy. There are so many more objectives to play when you're mad or villainesque, or when there's some agenda that you have. That's drama, that's where the heart lives. I love playing the bad guy, but especially the bad guy who's still with the girl. — Keegan Allen

Where others only see bricks,
train your eyes to see a palace. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director. — Valeria Golino

O friends, no more these sounds!
Let us sing more cheerful songs, more full of joy! — Friedrich Schiller

I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success. — Valeria Golino

I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics. — Valeria Golino