Cameron Crowe Quotes

If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.

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• To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

  

  Origen
  • Life
  • End
  • Him

• Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Decisions

• I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Real

• Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Today
  • Study
  • Try

• I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Women
  • May
  • Weird

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Responsibility

• Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Best

• I like power and I like to use it.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Power
  • Like
  • Use

• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Travel

• My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Father
  • Like

• I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Think
  • Trouble
  • Going

• I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • School
  • Art
  • Business

• We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Being

• It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • People
  • Amazing
  • News

• But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Questions
  • Solution
  • Puzzle

• One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

  

  Ed Harris
  • You
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Poetry
  • Enough
  • Smart

• There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

  

  Jim Fowler
  • World
  • Country

• I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Funny

• You don't wanna walk around and say, 'I'm somebody's niece, I'm somebody's cousin, I'm somebody's daughter. Who are you?' And I think that's always the challenge when you grow up in a well-known family, is ultimately, you have to face yourself in the mirror and say, 'Who are you? What have you done?'

  

  Maria Shriver
  • Up
  • Family
  • Done

• Since I became part of the zeitgeist, I've been called a sellout many times.

  

  Joe Wurzelbacher

• Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Women
  • Real

• If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Words
  • Write
  • Actor