Great Quotes
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I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky.
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It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you.
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Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if he went to watch a theater show, 'Ah! He is here tonight.'
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I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception.
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I think that 'Saving Grace' is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor.
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Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.
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Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
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I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.
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I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.
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Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened.
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I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.
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For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and would be completely unemployable in any other job - so it's great to be able to channel your psychological anomalies into something productive and creative.
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It turns out we are all quite easily swayed if someone knows what they are doing - which is a great thing and a dangerous thing.
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[Kurt] Vonnegut was a writer whose great gift was that he always seemed to be talking directly to you. He wasn't writing, he wasn't showing off, he was just telling you, nobody else, what it was like, what it was all about. That intimacy made him beloved. We can admire the art of John Updike or Philip Roth, but we love Vonnegut.
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It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.
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A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.
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Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
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If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.
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Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.
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Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.
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A pomegranate is filled with rubies when you open it up. Diamonds may be a girl's best friend - but not for me. I love rubies; they're great over necks, you know.
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The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department.
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You send your kids off to college. They love you. You walk away with a Cornell mom T-shirt. You are walking away going this is great, and come Thanksgiving, your kid tells you that you are an imperialist and a racist and a homophobe. That is not worth $120,000.
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I don't want to make it a hard, fast rule, but it's surprising how many 'fun for the whole family' acts are real scumbags. The people that confess they're scumbags on stage are generally really great people. They're more honest with the audience with who they are.
