Quotes by Producers - Page 3

When I look at the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey
The moment somebody says to me "This is very risky " is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
Kate Capshaw
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. ... If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again you may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught.
Peter Lord
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
Gottfried Reinhardt
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Lucille Ball
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
Mary Pickford
Luck is everything. ... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward to have a low threshold of fear because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
Alfred Hitchcock
A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce I think I'm about a hundred thousand dollars short.
Mickey Rooney
My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.
James Woods
She represents the country Alamonia.
David Letterman
Life's better when it's fun. Boy that's deep isn't it?
Kevin Costner
You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
Elia Kazan
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball
The truth of a thing is the feel of it not the think of it.
Stanley Kubrick
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's.
Billy Wilder
I know it was wonderful but I don't know how I did it.
Sir Laurence Olivier
France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
Oprah Winfrey
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Danny Thomas
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy even if you're not part of their happiness.
Julia Roberts
Ladies and gentlemen after what I've been through I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.
David Letterman
Let how you live your life stand for something no matter how small and incidental it may seem.
Jodie Foster
The secret of staying young is to live honestly eat slowly and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball
Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting and of all relationships.
Jodie Foster
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
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Billy Wilder
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Stanley Kubrick
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey
Keep a grateful journal. Every night list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.
Oprah Winfrey
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Alfred Hitchcock
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 have made mistakes even serious ones there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
If you risk nothing then you risk everything.
Geena Davis
Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.
George Cukor
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
Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
Take chances make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore
When it goes wrong you feel like cutting your throat but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.
George Cukor
If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you.
Mary Pickford
Humor is my sword and my shield. It protects me. You can open a door with humor and drive a truck right through.
Alan Simpson
It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most and the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.
Cathy Lee Crosby
Someone's always saying "It's not whether you win or lose " but if you feel that way you're as good as dead.
James Caan
To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time then everything is easy.
Thomas A. Buckner
Life is enthusiasm zest.
Sir Laurence Olivier
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Frank Capra
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
Courage is being scared to death ... and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
Lucille Ball
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
Gloria Swanson
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day ah now that's a real treat.
Joanne Woodward
One's lifework I have learned grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it and first thing you know you'll have made a life out of it. A good life too
Theresa Helburn
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil B. DeMille
If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think "I want to make this movie " it'll never get made.
Sherry Lansing
I'm tired of playing worn-out depressing ladies in frayed bathrobes. I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.
Joanne Woodward
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey