Paul Reiser Quotes
I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me.
Quotes to Explore
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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I've gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.
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I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.
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I don't even think my children are aware of what I've done. When somebody will ask me for my autograph, Spenser-Margaret will say, 'You must watch 'Charlie's Angels.' You know, that's like all I've done to them.
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Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.
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You can't just get in a boat with someone and be great straight away. It takes a lot of time to get used to each other. You need to learn how the other person reacts to certain situations.
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My life is a series of things that just happen.
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I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.
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Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.
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We're always grasping to feel safe. Ultimately, some people feel safe through love or family or community. Some people through exerting control.
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The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me.
