Mike Newell Quotes

What most people do is they make terrific films, one in three if you're very lucky, maybe one in five. So you just have to keep on, you have to get through the bad bits.

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• I'm not Cinderella.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Cinderella

• Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Growing

• I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Song

• My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Father

• And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Sex
  • Years

• I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • World
  • Knows
  • Robert W. Chambers

• Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Stars

• When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Love
  • Feel

• I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Different
  • Money
  • Experience

• I wonder if it's possible to be a Republican and a Christian at the same time.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Time
  • Christian
  • Wonder

• Nobody knows whether we were catalysts or invented something, or just the froth riding on a wave of its own. We were all three, I suppose.

  

  Allen Ginsberg

• Fear arises sooner than anything else.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Fear

• Left-handed pitchers get paid a lot of money to get left-handed guys out or else they wouldn't be in there. They feel confident going up against lefties. If you look at most lefties' numbers, typically they happen to be better against lefties than against righties. That's all it is.

  

  Curtis Granderson
  • Up
  • Money

• I love the system. Let me tell you why. People love it... The people, by and large, have great respect for our law and our system... Why do you think they go to that courthouse instead of killing each other in the streets, taking the law into their own hands?

  

  Joe Jamail
  • People
  • Great
  • Why

• As an actor, you think to yourself, 'I want to do good work,' but you also want the work that you do to make an impact in some way.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm especially keen to work with good scriptwriters on stories we have developed.

  

  Jiang Wen
  • Good
  • Work

• Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Plant

• When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

  

  Amelie Nothomb
  • Success

• The trouble in the world is nearly all due to the fact that one-half of the people are men, and the other half women.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules.

  

  Marty Feldman
  • People
  • Good
  • Sex

• Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Evil
  • Human
  • Bed

• The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Country
  • May

• What most people do is they make terrific films, one in three if you're very lucky, maybe one in five. So you just have to keep on, you have to get through the bad bits.

  

  Mike Newell
  • People
  • Through
  • Five