Quotes by Directors - Page 3

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
My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday.
Noël Coward
My credo is etched on my mirror in my bathroom and I see it when I brush my teeth in the morning. It says "Don't worry Be Happy Feel Good." When you see that first thing and you reflect on it the rest of the day seems to glide by pretty well.
Larry Hagman
Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught.
Peter Lord
Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.
Woody Allen
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as if she weren't.
Sacha Guitry
Life's better when it's fun. Boy that's deep isn't it?
Kevin Costner
Age does not protect you from love. But love to some extent protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
Elia Kazan
I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
Life doesn't imitate art it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen
I do not believe in an afterlife although I am bringing a change of underwear.
Woody Allen
If anything happens to me tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way they'll have to reevaluate me.
Albert Brooks
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen
Ninety percent of living is just showing up.
Woody Allen
My body has certainly wandered a good deal but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
Noël Coward
I know it was wonderful but I don't know how I did it.
Sir Laurence Olivier
The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
Sacha Guitry
You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry
My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.
Hal Roach
You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans.
Woody Allen
People are too durable that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves they last too long.
Bertolt Brecht
Everyone needs help from everyone.
Bertolt Brecht
The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.
Lionel Barrymore
Let how you live your life stand for something no matter how small and incidental it may seem.
Jodie Foster
Everyone chases after happiness not noticing that happiness is at their heels.
Bertolt Brecht
Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting and of all relationships.
Jodie Foster
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
Bertolt Brecht
How to make God laugh. Tell him your future plans.
Woody Allen
The worst that you can say about him (God) is that basically he's an underachiever.
Woody Allen
What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.
Eva Le Gallienne
Normal is not something to aspire to it's something to get away from.
Jodie Foster
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen
We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked ... not just pitter-patter but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid because most people really like this contact that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.
Liv Ullmann
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover only the clover isn't good enough.
Bertolt Brecht
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen
It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.
Bertolt Brecht
For me it's not possible to forget and I don't understand people who when the love is ended can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.
Jeanne Moreau
The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under try not to go bald.
Woody Allen
Adults are just children who earn money.
Kenneth Branagh
We're born alone we live alone we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles
If you're not failing you're not trying anything.
Woody Allen
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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht
Life is enthusiasm zest.
Sir Laurence Olivier
Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.
Garson Kanin
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Woody Allen
No matter how old you get if you can keep the desire to be creative you're keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes
The mill wheel turns it turns forever though what is uppermost remains not so.
Bertolt Brecht
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
George. C. Scott
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -General Omar N. Bradley This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag but no one seemed to think anything about it apparently it's quite common for people to throw up at board meetings.
Jane Wagner
Showing up is eighty percent of life.
Woody Allen