Ed Macauley Quotes
You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.
Quotes to Explore
-
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
-
When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
-
Nothing is unfilmable.
-
The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
-
It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
-
My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
-
Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
-
I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
-
Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
-
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
-
I don't particularly like L.A.
-
The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
-
When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
-
Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.
-
I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.
-
Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product.
-
The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
-
Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic.
-
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
-
During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.
-
Producers and studios know what sells. It's nice to be one of the guys that can help sell a movie by taking his shirt off.
-
You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.
