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There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.
— Christopher Hampton
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
— Christopher Hampton
Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.
— Jacqueline Patricks
My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.
— Christopher Hampton
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
— Christopher Hampton
It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.
— Christopher Hampton
I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.
— Christopher Hampton
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
— George Horace Lorimer
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
— Christopher Hampton
I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
— Christopher Hampton
I'll never be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand as if a man were author to himself and knew no other kin.
— William Shakespeare
I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.
— Christopher Hampton
Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming.
— Robert Gordon Sproul
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
— Christopher Hampton
I wish you well and so I take my leave,I Pray you know me when we meet again. — William Shakespeare
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
— Christopher Hampton
You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
— Christopher Hampton
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
— Christopher Hampton
My teammates, they keep you focused.
— Torrey Smith
I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.
— Christopher Hampton
It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
— Christopher Hampton
I didn't get into skating to be famous.
— Eric Heiden
Masturbation is the thinking man's television.
— Christopher Hampton
How much pleasure can you stand?
— Richard Bandler
Rap was my drug.
— Eminem
Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
— Tammy Baldwin