Demanding Quotes

I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them; it's to push them.
Ricky Schroder

Trust, Best, Help

I had a mother who was very emotionally demanding, wanting to be the centre of attention. As they say in EastEnders, she thought it was all about 'er. I spent a lot of time trying to work out what was going on.
Andrew Davies

Work, Time, Mother

Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.
Dominique de Villepin

Between, Road, Follow

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
Mark Strand

View, Reader, Poem

I don't mind demanding women.
Chris Noth

I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution.
George Murray

Find, Living, Around

It's very demanding to make up your own music.
Lee Konitz

I know how demanding the process of creation is.
Karen Kain

Process, Creation

I've grown as a person. The dynamics on this set are very demanding because we work a lot of hours, it's very sad material, so there's always someone upset because it's really heavy stuff.
Elisabeth Rohm

Work, Sad, Someone

Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.
John Linder

Respect, Hard, Her

Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you're in Hawaii for nine months shooting on the water every day.
David R. Ellis

Life, Time, Best

As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.
Randy West

Mother, Game, Far

All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I've played before.
Sophie Marceau

Different, Before, Honest

There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.
Joe Eszterhas

Movies, Smoking, Scenes

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.
Jesse Helms

Place, Influence, United

I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It's demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the same time and frame all those things in a shot. But I feel like when you accomplish that then you've got a cool action scene.
Jose Padilha

Time, Cool, Give

I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
Jackie Cooper

Work, Good, Hope

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.
Martin Fleischmann

Problem, Theory, Quantum

We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century,' and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.
Nina Fedoroff

Food, Saying, Treat

As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.
Nina Fedoroff

Become, Around, Animal

I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.
Rory Bremner

Write, Used, Shows

It's technically demanding to shoot in 3-D. It's an extra element. Also, just the size of the cameras. They look like these 'Transformers' monsters; they are incredibly big, many of them.
Joel Kinnaman

Big, Size, Monsters

You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more.
Montel Williams

Why, After, Away

I am dating, but it is hard to find someone quick enough and funny enough. I am quite demanding.
Anne Robinson

Funny, Dating, Someone

Customers are very demanding and well informed.
Stefano Gabbana

Customers, Informed

Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs.
Stefanie Powers

Life, Daily, Routine

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
Robin Morgan

Freedom, Contagious

I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress.
Natasha Henstridge

Experience, Learning, Done

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.
Moses Mendelssohn

Beauty, Far, Mark

No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance.
Richard Masur

Someone, Anyone, Played

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