Good Quotes

• You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.

  

  Dev Anand
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Mom
  • Young
  • Guys

• Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Good
  • Manners
  • Good Manners

• When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Good
  • Story
  • Process

• A good husband makes a good wife.

  

  John Florio
  • Good
  • Wife
  • Husband

• The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Always

• You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Good
  • Women
  • Shoes

• It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

  

  Ennio Morricone
  • Good

• I've made a point of trying not to play the same part and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year, and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy. Or at least, it's my strategy to keep my head together.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed.

  

  Elizabeth Perkins
  • Good
  • Work
  • Friends

• If you're a parent, you know how incredibly good it feels when one of your children spontaneously thanks you for something. God is our Father, and he, too, is moved when we express our thanksgiving.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • God
  • Children
  • Father

• I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Work
  • She
  • Fun

• I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Writing
  • Bad

• Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

  

  David Deutsch
  • Good

• Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Important
  • Skills
  • Fitness

• Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Bad
  • Opinion
  • Media

• I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Good

• I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Star

• My father was a painter, so I was encouraged to take a sketchbook everywhere. Cameras are perishable, but I still have tonnes of sketchbooks from all the trips I've ever been on. It gets you by when you don't know what to give people as a gift; drawings are good souvenirs.

  

  Jane Birkin
  • People
  • Good
  • Father

• Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Good
  • Song

• It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

  

  Bruce Greenwood
  • Bad
  • Relationship
  • Environment

• A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall.

  

  Anatole Broyard
  • Good
  • Book
  • Wall

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