James Caan Quotes

I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.

James Caan

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• It's been clear for some time that FBI Director Comey has lost the confidence of Republicans, Democrats, and broader institutions, and his removal as FBI Director was probably overdue.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Time
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Up
  • Same
  • Tragedy

• To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • American
  • Speak
  • Honest

• I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
  • Things
  • Learned

• I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Work
  • Different
  • Unique

• I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Family
  • Book

• The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Doing
  • Planet
  • Inexcusable

• Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.

  

  Natasha Hamilton
  • Up
  • Being
  • Size

• Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Work
  • Want
  • Focus

• I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Animals

• Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Art

• By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Question
  • Reason

• I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Love
  • English

• Succeeding in network prime time has gotten tougher. Every day, several thousand homes are wired for cable, and more people are buying videodisks and video cassettes. That all represents competition.

  

  Fred Silverman
  • People
  • Time
  • Competition

• If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.

  

  Leonard Maltin
  • People

• God's been good to me, He really has. I don't know why he picked me out... Just think about it: I virtually coached in my hometown. From the middle of the Meadowlands field, it can't be but a couple of miles. I was lucky to do that.

  

  Bill Parcells
  • Good
  • God
  • Why

• I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.

  

  James Caan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing