Quotes by Directors - Page 2

It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.
Noël Coward
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht
People who are born even-tempered placid and untroubled-secure from violent passions or temptations to evil-those who have never needed to struggle all night with the angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn never become great saints.
Eva Le Gallienne
In order to find the edge you must risk going over the edge.
Dennis Dugan
You've got to keep fighting-you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
Elia Kazan
Innovators are inevitably controversial.
Eva Le Gallienne
I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Sally Field
What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
Bertolt Brecht
My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.
Hal Roach
When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.
Marshall Brickman
If I could only see one miracle just one miracle. Like a burning bush or the seas part or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.
Woody Allen
If only God would give me a clear sign like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
Woody Allen
You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans.
Woody Allen
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
Bertolt Brecht
I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes.
Woody Allen
Those modern analysts they charge so much! In my day for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.
Woody Allen
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
Bertolt Brecht
An actor's a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.
Marlon Brando
There is a very real relationship both quantitatively and qualitatively between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.
Oscar Hammerstein II
Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.
Liv Ullmann
I don't believe in pessimism.
Clint Eastwood
If you think it's going to rain it will.
Clint Eastwood
Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. ... It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead strive for excellence doing your best.
Sir Laurence Olivier
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Woody Allen
In my sex fantasy nobody ever loves me for my mind.
Nora Ephron
It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.
Phillip Mann
Fear is the highest fence.
Dudley Nichols
Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood I don't think I'm pretty enough.
Christine Lahti
Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it then you worry where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?
Dustin Hoffman
If I had my life to live over I wish I could be a great pianist or something.
Woody Allen
I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.
Sir John Gielgud
Time is the stuff life's made of.
David Belasco
Showing up is 80 percent of life.
Woody Allen
If something doesn't come up the way you want you have to forge ahead.
Clint Eastwood
I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.
Francis Ford Coppola
Innovators are inevitably controversial.
Eva Le Gallienne
I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Sally Field
What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
Bertolt Brecht
Retirement must be wonderful. I mean you can suck in your stomach for only so long.
Burt Reynolds
My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.
Hal Roach
When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.
Marshall Brickman
If I could only see one miracle just one miracle. Like a burning bush or the seas part or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.
Woody Allen
If only God would give me a clear sign like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
Woody Allen
You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans.
Woody Allen
It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
Bertolt Brecht
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
Bertolt Brecht
I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes.
Woody Allen
Those modern analysts they charge so much! In my day for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.
Woody Allen
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
Bertolt Brecht
An actor's a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.
Marlon Brando
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht
There is a very real relationship both quantitatively and qualitatively between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.
Oscar Hammerstein II
Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.
Liv Ullmann
I don't believe in pessimism.
Clint Eastwood
If you think it's going to rain it will.
Clint Eastwood
Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. ... It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead strive for excellence doing your best.
Sir Laurence Olivier
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Woody Allen
In my sex fantasy nobody ever loves me for my mind.
Nora Ephron
It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.
Phillip Mann
Fear is the highest fence.
Dudley Nichols