Background Quotes

I like the Rockabilly look. My background is half Italian, half French. I wear cowboy boots and jeans.

Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.

With my background, I came out of the theater.

I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.

I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport.

With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do we know about the author and their background? What do I know about the subject?'

Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.

I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare play.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London.

I come from a working-class background where I was much more likely to read socialist books and leaflets than Bronte or Dickens - neither of whom I've yet read.

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

I have a crazy background in music, both as a performer and writer.

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

I'm a scrappy outsider from Boston, so didn't have a privileged background at all like many in business.

My background is very much tropical rainforests. We did a lot in the earlier series in places like the Amazon and the Congo. Almost as an antidote to that, I quite like more open, mountainous regions.

I have the improv background, but stand-up is different.

I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.

I came from a really proper working-class English background.

Innovation will come from an ecosystem of pervasive computing so natural and all-encompassing that it disappears into the background.

Because a composer's soul goes into a film, they should do the entire film, even the background score. If not, then don't do it.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

I come from a Hasidic background; I am only one generation removed.

People know my background and for people who need an improviser, I'm one of the people they think to use if I'm appropriate for the part.

The carer of the disabled person is always in the background. People don't want to hear about the sleaze and the nitty-gritty and the hardship.

I don't really have a theatre background at all.