The best Quotes and Sayings (Page 6)

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

Discipline is not a nasty word.

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.

I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.

Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.

Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now.

I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

Since the Reunion of Germany, or even since World War II, there has been no challenge to our country that demanded from us to work together as much as this one.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

This bikini made me a success.

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.

Collecting is my passion.

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

Don't take anything from me because I'll track it down.

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.

I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.'

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

The creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

My presence is to instigate and incite the people for any change they want, and for not having a change that they don't wish to do.

Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person.

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.

So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.

The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.