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

• My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.

  

  Jordan Knight
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Dance

• When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Band
  • Ideas
  • Found

• Everything on TV is perfect, and it's so boring.

  

  Jonathan Krisel
  • Perfect
  • Boring

• The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Language
  • Evolution

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

  

  Michael Arndt
  • Mediocre
  • Screenplays