James Woods Quotes

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

James Woods

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• I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Job
  • Approach
  • Losses

• I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Business
  • Success

• Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Control
  • Back
  • Greatest

• I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Country
  • America
  • Think

• My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Law
  • Responsibility
  • Best

• That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Work
  • Team

• Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Son

• It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

  

  Karl Popper
  • You
  • Speak
  • Impossible

• I like to frequent antiques shops and flea markets like the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Like
  • Rose
  • Bowl

• I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!

  

  Sam Neill
  • Enjoy
  • Cold
  • Choice

• I'm absolutely, l00 percent, not guilty.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Guilty
  • Percent
  • Not Guilty

• I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

  

  Larry Norman
  • People
  • Think
  • Christian

• You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Body
  • Look
  • Year

• When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Mother
  • Night
  • College

• Every casting director I've met is a woman.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Woman
  • Director
  • Casting

• Everyone has a different training style and being a female, sometimes you find you have to get really aggressive. Some people respond really well to aggression, some people don't.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • People
  • Different
  • Style

• When people questioned this, the priests simply said, The world has changed. We must change with it.You can imagine how well that went over.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • People
  • World

• There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

  

  David Grann

• “Brother," he wept, "my heart is being cut in two. I cannot bear it." "Tscha!" said the Tsar of Birds. "Life is like that.”

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Brother

• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing was not generated from within me. Even if I walk with light, I am not the light; and if I am a taut-stringed lute, I am not the lute player.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Song

• It would be far less interesting, after 'The Empire Strikes Back,' to have an hour-long movie in between 'Empire' and 'Return of the Jedi,' where Luke is training. It's so much cooler to cut from end of 'Empire' to beginning of 'Return,' where he's become the Jedi.

  

  David Benioff
  • Long
  • Movie
  • Interesting

• The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

  

  James Woods