LeRoy Neiman Quotes

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

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• Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Inside
  • Sides
  • Ridiculous

• In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Me
  • Superstar

• People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • People
  • Moral
  • Religion

• I'm from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my hands on until I was able to make it to L.A.

  

  Madisen Beaty
  • Wise
  • Hands
  • Everything

• I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Work
  • Love
  • Think

• To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Money
  • Mistake
  • Dawn

• I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Opportunity
  • Difference

• I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.

  

  Eddie Money
  • Up
  • Age
  • Getting

• I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Way
  • Person
  • Option

• In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Great
  • Men
  • May

• Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Law
  • Government
  • Information

• Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Love
  • History

• If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Want
  • Rest

• Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Children
  • Future
  • Effort

• The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • American
  • Happy

• My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

  

  Abigail Spencer
  • People
  • Why
  • True

• There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Happiness

• I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Think
  • You
  • Attention

• People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

  

  Kage Baker
  • People
  • Business
  • History

• I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.

  

  Burt Lancaster
  • People
  • Believe

• President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • American
  • History
  • Food

• A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down to it, is worth more.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Good
  • God

• Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Want
  • Government
  • Powerful

• The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

  

  LeRoy Neiman