Marty Feldman Quotes

I don't enjoy anything while I'm doing it. I enjoy having done things, though.

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• A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Democracy
  • Never
  • Criticism

• Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Money
  • You
  • Responsibility

• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

  

  O. Henry
  • American
  • Day
  • Thanksgiving

• It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • School
  • Think
  • Day

• To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Luck
  • Soldier
  • Skill

• I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Chance

• I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Think
  • Teach

• I love India.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Love
  • I Love
  • India

• On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Love
  • Help

• No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Great
  • Art
  • Artist

• I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Time
  • Running
  • Green

• I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

  

  Young Buck
  • Opportunity
  • Moving
  • Young

• It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • People
  • Power
  • Free

• Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Happy
  • British
  • Dialect

• Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Up
  • Community
  • Attention

• There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.

  

  Beck
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Song

• It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • World
  • Done
  • Mischief

• I've read a hundred fantastic scripts that didn't pan out as films, and I completely put that on the directors. I've also read some mediocre scripts that have ended up being amazing, and I credit that to the directors. They're the storytellers. If you don't have a good storyteller, you really have nothing.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Up
  • Good
  • Amazing

• With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Purpose

• My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she's always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I've learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• I don't enjoy anything while I'm doing it. I enjoy having done things, though.

  

  Marty Feldman
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