Good Quotes

• Any asshole can make a good movie for $100 million. I think it's way harder to make a movie with no money, and to start with no contacts and work your way up to international productions.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Up
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I was hellbent on going to drama school, but my mother, rightly, panicked and persuaded me to go to university on the grounds that a degree would be 'something to fall back on.' Whilst at college, I realised I wasn't good enough or robust enough to be an actress.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • School
  • Mother
  • College

• I really detest brunch. I think it's a waste of a good day. Detest is a little too severe, but I would say I'm not a brunch person.

  

  Cynthia Rowley
  • Good

• I think the men in L.A. are very rugged, good-looking. Men in New York look metro with their manis and pedis and their Bruno Magli loafers, but inside they're very masculine - aside from the Meatpacking District. The problem is the men in New York are five to one: five women to one man.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.

  

  Jonathan Lethem
  • Great
  • Long
  • Writing

• There's a slew of actors that I'd love to work with. I'd love to work with Gary Oldman. He seems like not only a solid dude and a good man, but a pretty inspired actor.

  

  John Pyper-Ferguson
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Inspired

• You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Power
  • Mother
  • Evil

• Where typically the cops are generally the good guys, 'The Red Road' blurs the lines intelligently and shows corruption from all sides of the law. It provides unpredictable drama where the audience is kept guessing about how these characters will each choose to act.

  

  Martin Henderson
  • Law
  • Road
  • Drama

• As a writer, I find that a good way of evolving a character is through an examination of his or her defining relationships - and what's more defining than a relationship with someone you love?

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • Good
  • Character
  • Relationship

• Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

  

  James Mackintosh
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• In our time, there are still many, like those in the Good Samaritan story, who being of the religious classes in that time, purposely crossed to the other side of the road, and passed by the injured and bleeding.

  

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • Time
  • Religious
  • Road

• I like to be physical and work out and dance, because it makes me feel good. It really does. I grew up doing it - it is obviously something that is so natural for me that when I'm not doing that, I actually feel kind of off and weird.

  

  Jenna Dewan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dance

• Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

  

  John Foster
  • Good
  • Japanese

• I just put people together. I just identified jobs that have to be filled. And then I have to go out and find the right people and make sure they talk to each other. So I'm the beneficiary of good things that other people do. I get credit for that. If they don't do a good job, I get the blame for it.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • People
  • Job
  • Together

• The life of a model isn't easy. But I try to keep a good head on my shoulders by staying close to my family and old friends. They're my support system.

  

  Constance Jablonski
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.

  

  Lajos Kassak
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Father

• If it's good art, it's good.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Good
  • Art

• I always imagine a good leader is surrounded by people who call their mothers at the end of the day and tell them, 'Mom, you can't believe what I did today. Let me tell you about it.'

  

  James Altucher
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's hand.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Style

• I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

  

  John Maeda
  • People
  • Up
  • Design

• There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.

  

  C. Terry Warner
  • Way
  • Ideas
  • Differences

• When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. I’ll be in charge of trying to sell a product that no one needs, is identical to its competition, and can’t be sold on its merits. I’d be competing head-on in the cola wars, on price, distribution, advertising, and promotion, which would indeed be hell for me. Remember, I’m the kid who couldn’t play competitive games. I’d much rather design and sell products so good and unique that they have no competition.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Die

• In 1998, I was screening 'Good Will Hunting' at Camp David. And I was saying, 'Nice to meet you, Mr. President. Nice to meet you, Mrs. Clinton.' Madeleine Albright, Sandy Berger, Senator Daschle. It was an extraordinary day.

  

  Lawrence Bender
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Hunting

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