Jo Jordan Quotes

I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat pages and then move on to the next role, is fascinating.

I'm hoping to develop a lot of graphic novels and television shows and films and animation. I've got my hands in a lot of different things!

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

I want to do more films.

Playing a bad guy would be fun, I'm not going to lie. I'd definitely do that in a heartbeat, because it's so out of my nature.

Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.

I'm a comic book fan.

But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'

It's hard to say if the NBA is hurt by the influx of younger players, but it's definitely impacted the league.

Number 45 doesn't explode like Number 23 used to.

I'm sorry to see it end.

It takes a hell of a lot for a man to put up with me. I can be a handful.

Playing sick. That is so hard to do. It has to be a total mental challenge, as well as the physical challenge.

Can I still dunk... Are you stupid?

If I have something and move forward, it is only my weakness, which I hate and turn into my strength. You are not lost as long as you do not give up!

You remember the [remarks] you made in 1994 about, 'I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you?' Well, you're about to get your chance.

I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players.

I Own the guy guarding me

Drugs have been in the game for a long time. They were there when I was in college, and even in high school. It's in life. It's in business. It's everywhere.

If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

I do enjoy working with writers.

You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.

When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.

The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?

In Dreams...well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.

It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.

And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.

Abduction is a romantic expression of passion.

I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day.

It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.

I pretty much always feel gratitude. I thank God throughout the day.

The Noor Al-Hussein Foundation (Light of Al-Hussein) was created to complement my husband's efforts to advance development in the country.

The idea of public service was instilled in me by watching my father, who shared that he was far more fulfilled in his public service than by his former lucrative corporate jobs.

I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in the country, about where there were gaps in the development process that needed attention.

In some extreme cases, women are constrained by what can only be described as pre-Islamic, misogynistic approaches to the role of women in society. That continues to be a challenge.

I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees.

Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged - socially, economically, politically.

There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.