Mark Goddard Quotes
Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.
Quotes to Explore
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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Women thought me charmingly shy, and sometimes stopped at nothing to 'penetrate the disdainful shell of my fear,' as one of their number put it. Often as not, it was they who got penetrated.
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It's everyone's dread to lose a child. You lose someone you love so much, so young. It does hit you like nothing else, and there is a bit of you that thinks, well, if you can face that sort of challenge in your life, then it puts everything else into perspective.
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I wasn't born into a family that told me that I wasn't capable of what my brother was capable of. I can do anything.
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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Hunting is a family thing for me, and it's a Texas thing. We have a lot of land in Texas that's been in our family for 12 generations.
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Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.
