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Jai Ganesh

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Box Quotes - II

Box Quotes - II

1. The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. - Thomas Huxley

2. I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box. - Princess Diana

3. There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it. - Eddie Murphy

4. There's one thing I'm really good at, and that's hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I'm excellent. - Serena Williams

5. I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success. - Rani Mukerji

6. My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They're still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished. - Pierce Brosnan

7. The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie. - Tom Hanks

8. Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it. - Shania Twain

9. I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing. - Penelope Cruz

10. I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films. - Yash Chopra

11. People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less. - Johnny Depp

12. If you yell at your box, I'm not really sure it's something where it should be a penalty. It seems like you hurt yourself. - John McEnroe.

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