Martin Scorsese Quotes

I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.

Martin Scorsese

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• Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Life
  • American
  • Fear

• Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Real
  • Always

• I didn't even start college until I was 21.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • College
  • Start
  • Even

• I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Choices
  • Weird

• You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • You
  • Sound

• I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Fight
  • Week

• Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!

  

  Walter Huston
  • Up
  • Good
  • Man

• I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Love
  • Parents

• To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Know
  • Designer

• Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • House
  • Parents
  • You

• Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Women
  • Men And Women

• It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Wisdom
  • Matter
  • Tragedy

• Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Tears
  • Guilt
  • Wash

• The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.

  

  Macy Gray
  • House
  • Deep
  • Red

• But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Attention
  • Doing
  • Nails

• I'm not superstitious.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Superstitious

• The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Transformation

• For me, growing up in Los Angeles in the '90s, Huell Howser was the most consistently watchable entertainer on TV. I was more of a radio geek as a teenager, but Huell I watched whenever I got the chance. A lot of us did.

  

  James Adomian
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Teenager

• I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.

  

  David Lindsay-Abaire
  • People
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I casually advise a few young companies, and I'm always surprised when I see them overthinking simple problems, adding too much structure too early, and trying to get formal too soon. Start-ups should embrace their scrappiness, not rush to toss it aside.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Trying
  • Simple

• Ever charming, ever new,When will the landscape tire the view?

  

  John Dyer

• I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.

  

  Martin Scorsese