Quotes by Screenwriters - Page 3

It's a simple formula do your best and somebody might like it.
Dorothy Baker
The main obligation is to amuse yourself.
S.J. Perelman
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
If there is reincarnation I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.
Woody Allen
Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
Woody Allen
Sex - the poor man's polo.
Clifford Odets
Sex is an emotion in motion.
Mae West
A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts ... and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.
Federico Fellini
If you believe then you hang on. If you believe it means you've got imagination you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today I'll come in tomorrow.
Ruth Gordon
Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.
Stephen King
I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.
Fay Weldon
Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature with all its contradictions appetites aversions rages can one hope to understand a little ... oh I admit only a very little ... of what life is about.
Françoise Sagan
I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami but salami is salami.
Stephen King
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Lillian Hellman
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Rita Mae Brown
Humility is like underwear essential but indecent if it shows.
Helen Nielsen
It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.
Lillian Hellman
If you put a woman in a man's position she will be more efficient but no more kind.
Fay Weldon
Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it and they can't ever take that away from you.
Mae West
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
To play it safe is not to play.
Robert Altman
Between two evils I always picked the one I never tried before.
Mae West
A dreamer-you know-it's a mind that looks over the edges of things.
Mary O'Hara
There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.
Neil Simon
You've got to keep fighting-you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
Elia Kazan
If you're gonna be a failure at least be one at something you enjoy.
Sylvester Stallone
I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
Sylvester Stallone
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
R.C. Sherriff
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
When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.
Marshall Brickman
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West
You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans.
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
Hindsight is always zo/20.
Billy Wilder
I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.
Federico Fellini
It's funny but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune and you never know when it will befall you.
Thomas McGuane
To get it right be born with luck or else make it.
Ruth Gordon
When I'm good I'm very good but when I'm bad I'm better.
Mae West
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
Tom Stoppard
I used to be snow-white . . . but I drifted.
Mae West
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West
We also serve who only punctuate.
Brian Moore
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
I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes.
Woody Allen
Only man among living things says prayers. Or needs to.
Peter Bowman
Power tends to connect absolute power connects absolutely.
Peter Newman
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
Mae West
Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five and the worst actually began to happen.
Delia Ephron
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face the friends the health and the children you have earned.
Fay Weldon
Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
Ruth Gordon
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
Franchise Sagan
Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
Federico Fellini
The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick
In other words apart from the known and the unknown what else is there?
Harold Pinter
Nothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman
I have loved to the point of madness that which is called madness that which to me is the only sensible way to love.
Françoise Sagan
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Woody Allen
Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
Harlan Ellison