Carey Mulligan Quotes

I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes, is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

Always the same thing.

Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.

Business has to have capital.I think Wall Street is a necessary ingredient of the global economy, you've just got to keep people realizing that helping clients is the most important thing, not helping yourself.

I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.

I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.

A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

Dynamic change is always my favorite thing. As soon as I feel like I'm doing all of the same stuff over and over again, I'm bored and sad.

I'm fed up of doing run-of-the-mill stuff.

I think you find stories with fresh perspectives, and there can be a danger in the opposite way when you start getting too cynical and things just don't start seeming like stories, and things don't seem exciting anymore. It's like, 'Yep, this is my fourth caucus, and I know everybody and know everything and I am writing just to impress my friends.'

London is a very important financial centre.

I had a great time as a teacher, but I was just treading water, as a lot of us do.

For me, a bad day is when I have nothing going on.

I hate not playing. That's the bottom line.

I don't like to do the same songs every night for a week. I just... it's boring and tiring and frustrating basically.

America has always had an affinity for the automobile. It's something everybody can understand. A bunch of cars competing, and the fastest guy wins.

I don't have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years.

But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

The transfer of Wall Street from private ownership to public ownership has been a big step backward.