Albert S. Ruddy Quotes
I'd rather deal with a Mob guy shaking hands on a deal than a Hollywood lawyer, who, the minute you get the contract signed, is trying to figure out how to screw you.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
-
Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
-
The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
-
You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
-
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
-
I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
-
I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
-
I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
-
The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
-
I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!
-
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
-
To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
-
My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
-
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
-
Daring is not safe against daring men.
-
A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
-
Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
-
I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.
-
As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.
-
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
-
I don't like going out. I'm more of a watch TV, hang out, Netflix kind of guy. I don't like leaving; I don't like talking to people. It gives me anxiety.
-
When you're going for a big studio comedy, the joke tally better be pretty high, and you better have some big comedy set pieces. That was one of the issues when I was trying to get 'Swingers' made for the first time, which is that there weren't any broad comedy set pieces.
-
When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked.
-
I'd rather deal with a Mob guy shaking hands on a deal than a Hollywood lawyer, who, the minute you get the contract signed, is trying to figure out how to screw you.
