John Frankenheimer Quotes

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

John Frankenheimer

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• We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Fun
  • Spiritual
  • Around

• I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Think
  • Matter
  • Where

• Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Society
  • Justice

• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • True

• To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Power
  • Change
  • Action

• A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Up
  • God
  • Wait

• There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Aim

• Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Home
  • Fake
  • Table

• We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Parents
  • Attention

• I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Hate
  • Write
  • Stuff

• I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Men
  • Live

• Actors are always trying to cry and people are actually trying not to cry.

  

  Anthony Head
  • People
  • Trying

• Silence is the winding-sheet of the past: it is sometimes impious, often dangerous to raise it. But even when it is raised piously and lovingly, the first moment is a cruel one.

  

  Alphonse de Lamartine
  • Past
  • Silence

• The future starts now.

  

  Alex Steffen
  • Future

• I've never gotten cash out of a machine. I use my credit cards, so I don't need to do that.

  

  Paula Creamer

• To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Up
  • Society
  • Man

• ...One of the side effects of (surgery, anesthesia,) X-ray..., and chemotherapy, is the suppression...of the patient's immunological defenses...A simple cold often leads to the death from pneumonia - and ('pneumonia') is what appears on the death certificate, not cancer.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Death
  • Simple
  • Dark

• Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative; I loved the writing. I loved the making of it. Because, I guess, I never had the giant blockbuster, I never got that sort of ease for the next one.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Writing

• The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

  

  John Frankenheimer