Great Quotes
-
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.
-
Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library.
-
There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
-
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
-
What's great about 'Skins' is that the characters are exactly like people around you.
-
In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
-
I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.
Garry Kasparov -
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
-
When you travel on a bus with guys who love all kinds of music, you get exposed to some great stuff, man.
-
The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
-
Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.
-
Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.
-
I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
-
There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.
-
The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.
-
My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.
-
I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.
-
Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band.
-
Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
-
'Great-grandfather died under strange circumstances. He opened a vein in his bath.''I never knew baths had veins,' protested Gabrilowitsch.''I never knew his great-grandfather had a ba-' began Falcovsky derisively.
-
You're gonna get your traditional Busta Rhymes and Pharrell collabo. My man Focus from the Aftermath crew; Dr. Dre; the late, great J Dilla got work on the album. It's gonna be great - look forward to the new bang-out.
-
After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
-
In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
-
Having your work honored nationally is a great morale booster.
