Ownership Feeling Quotes

You look at guys on the court, man. You got this guy with this brand of shoe, and this guy with this brand - they're just wearing the shoe. But it's a whole different feeling when you got a shoe on, and it's yours.

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?

If I love a song, I make it mine.

I had always felt deep down that I owned the characters. Much as I adored and cherished the work of my actors, I felt that they were cast to do and be what I could not physically do or be.

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!

I'm public property, the public put me where I am. They own me.

We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us.

Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the public should feel himself an owner of public property-such as a Town Park-and should therefore respect it as his own, they are saying something which all our experience proves to be completely false. No man feels of public property that it is his own; no man will treat it with the care of the affection of a thing which is his own.

As you live with a character longer, you claim more ownership over it. You become more defensive of it. It becomes like a person that you know.