James Carville Quotes

No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.

James Carville

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• I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Different
  • Movies
  • Choose

• Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Why

• I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Man
  • You
  • Rocky

• A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Never
  • Big
  • Winner

• I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Try

• At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Time
  • Friend

• We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Best
  • Bullying

• Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.

  

  Ed Wood
  • You
  • Star
  • Take

• When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • May
  • Today
  • Lost

• Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Religion

• Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Money
  • You
  • Imagination

• My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Country

• The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Country
  • May

• I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Trying
  • Education

• Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.

  

  W. Edwards Deming

• I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.

  

  Anne Bancroft
  • Joy
  • Jump

• The best works are often those with the fewest and simplest elements.. ..until you look at them a little more, and things start to happen.

  

  Clyfford Still

• I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg custard. With the egg custard, which was supposed to be a dessert, I forget to put the sugar in, so that's more of a quiche, isn't it?

  

  Lesley Nicol

• The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.

  

  R. A. Lafferty
  • Good

• I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
  • May
  • True

• Why worry? There should be laughter after pain.There should be sunshine after rain.These things have always been the same.So why worry now?

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Why
  • Pain
  • Worry

• I do not look at myself every morning and think: 'Oh, my gosh, I am so perfect, so beautiful, so talented.' No, I like to make fun of myself.

  

  Marion Bartoli
  • Fun
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.

  

  James Carville