Sergio Leone Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
-
My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
-
I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
-
I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
-
A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
-
I am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God.
-
I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
-
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
-
Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
-
Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
-
My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
-
This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
-
We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
-
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
-
I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
-
Some people get very confused about my game. They think it's better if the court is slow, because I have a good defence. But the faster it is, the better for me. My spin is more painful for my opponents, my aggressive game works better.
-
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
-
When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.
-
To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people.
-
Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
-
In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.
-
Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.
-
The thematic links came a little later, after I noticed I was gravitating towards certain elements - war, city, weather. So it wasn't all planned out from the start, it came out of the process.
-
I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.
