Michael Arndt Quotes

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

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• It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • More
  • Mediocre
  • Magnificent

• I'm trying to find the truth in myself. To play somebody else doesn't interest me. It's not the focus of my life. I can get through most scenes and do the acting part of it, and at best, I'm going to be mediocre.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Truth

• He's only mediocre, jealousy can't get with me.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Jealousy
  • Mediocre

• Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Great
  • Listening
  • Organization

• Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Good
  • Focus

• I think there are times when you're jamming with the universe, and other times when it feels like no matter how hard I work, no matter how good a person I am, I will always be punished for being mediocre.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Good
  • Work
  • Thinking

• While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Time
  • Texas
  • Screenplays

• You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Car
  • Cliffs
  • Screenplays

• Naked and pure is the spirit that transcends the existence mediocre.

  

  John Wilbanks
  • Spirit
  • Existence
  • Naked

• Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

  

  George Clooney
  • Film
  • Audience
  • Mediocre

• Humanity is mediocre. The majority of women are neither superior nor inferior to the majority of men. They are all equal. They all merit the same scorn.

  

  Valentine de Saint-Point
  • Men
  • Humanity
  • Mediocre

• Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Content
  • Mediocre
  • Dreamers

• A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Question
  • Administration
  • Mediocre

• David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Hate
  • Mean
  • Directors

• Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Men
  • Mediocre
  • Old Age

• It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Energy
  • Goals
  • Convinced

• We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Purpose
  • Mediocre

• It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Bad
  • Mediocre
  • Goog stuff

• Unfortunately, because of the breadth of what Yahoo does, they sort of became mediocre in so many properties.

  

  Susan Decker
  • Mediocre
  • Breadth
  • Yahoo

• Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Record
  • Groove

• Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.

  

  William Julius Wilson
  • Black
  • Giving
  • Scholar

• I said to myself every day: I am what I am and I have to accept myself; I was born like this, in this city, with this dialect, without money; I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Money
  • Accept
  • Endured

• My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

  

  Michael Arndt
  • Mediocre
  • Screenplays