Lloyd Quotes

Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.

One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory.

I am fighting this. I want to get better, I want to work again. I do believe we are architects of our destinies, but with me somewhere along the line something came loose.

I see the horrible way some stars deal with other people, and I don't know how they get away with it. Maybe it comes back to them in a different karma.

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.

I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches

They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.

If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

I voted for Stevenson as opposed to Eisenhower because I thought he would make a good president, but against my conscience because I thought that he was too good for the job.

When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.

Prison house for the soul

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

I don't build a house without predicting the end of the present social order.

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism?

All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

It looked a lot worse than it was. Al is going to be released. He has vision and it's going to be day-by-day prognosis now. But it's much, much better than we initially anticipated.

Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

If Im honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason Im still doing it, and if Im still doing it in ten years time, Im sure Ill find something else.

I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.

When you're on camera, you can't think of all the technical things.

Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.

I suppose it's really satisfying to play someone with secrets. It's really satisfying to decide how and when those things are going to start being revealed, and how subtle to be.

I'm incredibly grateful for Sophie Barthes, I'll always be incredibly grateful for her being generous enough to believe in what I thought. And it was just lucky that I met the right person.

If you want an honest dialogue, you can't criticize someone for what they say. You can't teach someone to think in a certain way.

There was still an element in acting, certainly for my dad, of like, "This is lunacy." But then once my parents could tell that I was serious, it was like, "Okay then."

Once you get an agent you're given an opportunity to try a little bit more. It's a really long ladder.

You can't go fighting everyone that's harsh towards you.

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.

I've aged, but grown up? No.

I've learned to hate it when the cameras are pointed at me.

I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business.

Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.

The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion.

It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.

I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.

I definitely worked really hard to evoke Frankie Valli, but not do a strict imitation, because I feel that a strict imitation is not as compelling to watch.

I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway role to get to then do it on screen.

I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.