Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wyler

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

Walter Hill

Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.

Walter Hill

It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.

Walter Hill

I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.

Walter Hill

Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.

Walter Hill

If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.

Walter Hill

I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.

Walter Hill

I always say the next one is my favorite.

Walter Hill

Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Pot barley takes longer to cook than pearl, but an overnight soak in water will speed things along. It's a robust grain that, if overcooked, won't collapse but will become more tender.

Will Thomas

We all know by now that Barack Obama is not a patriot. After all, he doesn't always wear a flag pin, and he objects to the idea that he should be required to in order to run for office.

Virginia Postrel

We've gone from a world in which Starbucks set a cutting-edge standard for mass-market design to a world in which Starbucks establishes the bare minimum. If your establishment can't come up with an original look, customers expect at least some sleek wood fixtures, nicely upholstered chairs, and faux-Murano glass pendant lights.

Abraham Lincoln

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.

Constance Marie

If Luna Marie is at the park, my child is not happy unless she's on the highest bar of the jungle gym or the tallest branch of a tree or jumping over the biggest, deepest hole.

Chris Bohjalian

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

Evangeline Lilly

When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it.

H. Hart

The pig is already out of the barn as far as the effects of the yield curve on net interest margins. Margins will probably get modestly worse, but it won't be dramatic because the real negative impact has been absorbed.

Lynelle Jolley

The picketing is for informational purposes. We are, in fact, going to be back at the bargaining table in a couple of weeks, so a lot of the concerns they're expressing will be taken up at the bargaining table.

Brea Grant

I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of Daphne, which was originally called Joy.

Bill Hader

I took Second City out of desperation, and that's what ended up working out. It shows that you should be doing a lot of different stuff, taking whatever opportunities are there, to see what works.

Judith Butler

My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and a little later ended up in a reform synagogue. My father was in reform synagogues from the beginning.

Cassandra Clare

'City of Fallen Angels' ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership.

Douglas Coupland

Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out.

Patrick Stewart

It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.

John Patterson

We planned on (the zone) being a wrinkle. It ended up being a whole quarter type of thing.

Stewart Butterfield

What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably would've ended up as one.

Val McDermid

The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.

William Shatner

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

William Shatner

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.

Wentworth Miller

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

William Manchester

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

Wes Anderson

Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.

Zubin Mehta

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

Abraham Lincoln

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Ramana Maharshi

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

Ethel Waters

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

Barbara Corcoran

My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?

Zac Efron

I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.

Lubna Olayan

I think that Saudi women are very powerful. And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women.

Andrew Lansley

Especially some of the poorest in our society need to have the greatest support because health inequalities are too wide.

Judy Gold

To have a job making people laugh really is the greatest thing.

Anthony Wilson

We're not the greatest businessmen in the world. And this place stands as a testament to that.

Cameron Crowe

I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.

Johnny Smith

When they are lucky to be elected, they may not even step here again. How will they know our problems?

Brooke Shields

I'm a hands-on mum and I'm lucky to be able to be that. I can remember the things my mum used to do with me and that time together is so important.

Peter Jackson

I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders.

Scott Gomez

Those little brats don't realize how lucky they are.

Bob Brenly

You have no idea how lucky you are.

Michael Jacobs

We were just in that lucky little streak where we got some snow.

E. O. Wilson

We're lucky to have this once a week. It's tough to simulate.

Dusty Baker

We're lucky to have him now. We have to find a way to keep him in the lineup.

Damien Chazelle

At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

Tift Merritt

My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.

Carrie Preston

Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

Marc Walters

We have struggled to put performers on the first team because that's not how our team is built.

Aaliyah

I'm a total performer.

Lauren London

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

Larry Peruzzi

It's more of a shock factor. It's been a stellar performer and a leader. This is kind of new territory for them being this cautious.

Mick Ronson

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.

Juan Felipe Herrera

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

Damien Chazelle

At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

Carrie Preston

Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

Marc Walters

We have struggled to put performers on the first team because that's not how our team is built.

Aaliyah

I'm a total performer.

Lauren London

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

Mick Ronson

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.

Tim Finn

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

Richard Pryor

I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.

Andy Goldsworthy

I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

Carrie Fisher

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

Craig Bruce

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

Chris Hemsworth

I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.

Barbara Green

Those who complained truly feel that they are discriminated against, they truly feel that way.

H. Hunt

We are now well and truly in the post-Maui era.

Marianne Williamson

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.

Herbie Hancock

I was trying to make something truly collaborative,

Mike Leinbach

I'm here to tell you that it really is truly better.