James Toback Quotes

I work seriously with complete integrity. I never, never, never have offered a part to anyone who didn't deserve it, and I've never not delivered when I do offer a part. My word is better than a contract.

James Toback

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• I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • See
  • Books
  • Fabulous

• I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.

  

  Larry King
  • You
  • Better
  • Brooklyn

• I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Long
  • Kind
  • Voice

• Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Best
  • Ever
  • Feeding

• Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Matter
  • Truth Is

• If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Fans

• Nobody is faster than me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Faster

• I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Enjoy
  • Now
  • Used

• I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Up
  • Live
  • Trying

• It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'

  

  Natasha Little
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Style

• I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • She
  • Girl
  • Problem

• I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Imagination
  • Child

• I wear my personality on my sleeve, for sure, and my look is constantly changing because so am I.

  

  Halsey
  • Personality
  • Look
  • Changing

• It is a tomb, most famous of the Mughals, whose empire flourished in India between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, enshrining the remains of the fifth emperor of the dynasty, w:Shah Jahan|Shah Jehan| and those of his second wife Mumtaz Mahal. She died before him and construction of the complex began immediately.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • She
  • Wife
  • Famous

• The place was part museum, part library, and part archive; I loved it at first sight...and smell, for here there were thousands of printed books, many very old indeed, and nothing smells quite as wonderful as old books.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Library

• When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There were two wonderful editors, Bud Isaacs and Bernie Balmuth, working on the project, and every chance I had, I would go to the editing room to watch and learn from them.

  

  Christopher Rouse
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb Bush.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Player
  • Basketball

• My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Pretty
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• I'm very keen on the family getting together around the table because you learn so much of what's going on. With a full tummy, they begin to talk to you. People now have busy lives, but once or twice a week, it's lovely to sit all around together.

  

  Mary Berry
  • People
  • Family
  • Together

• Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • May
  • Integrity
  • Brainy

• There's a jean for everyone. And I'm a fan of that. I love a jean, and I love all these spins on them. I love a printed Balmain jean, or a Givenchy, and I love the prints, I love that you can have so much fun with it all, you know, dressing up.

  

  Liberty Ross
  • Up
  • Fun

• Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

  

  Paul Ricoeur
  • Identity
  • Movement
  • Disorder

• I work seriously with complete integrity. I never, never, never have offered a part to anyone who didn't deserve it, and I've never not delivered when I do offer a part. My word is better than a contract.

  

  James Toback
  • Integrity
  • Word
  • Contract