Quotes by Screenwriters - Page 4

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
Mae West
In my sex fantasy nobody ever loves me for my mind.
Nora Ephron
Fear is the highest fence.
Dudley Nichols
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
When you've got the personality you don't need the nudity.
Mae West
If I had my life to live over I wish I could be a great pianist or something.
Woody Allen
I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.
Sylvester Stallone
The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
Ruth Gordon
It has been discovered experimentally that you can draw laughter from an audience anywhere in the world of any class or race simply by walking on a stage and uttering the words "I am a married man."
Ted Kavanaugh
Goldie Hawn is funny sexy beautiful talented intelligent warm and consistently sunny. Other than that she doesn't impress me at all.
Neil Simon
Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.
Ben Hecht
Showing up is 80 percent of life.
Woody Allen
Taking time to live is taking time to appreciate simple silence as better than any kind of talk or watching a flower or watching a guy wash the windows on a skyscraper and wondering what he is thinking.
Gersi Douchan
The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk off the mound and weep.
Raymond Chandler
To be somebody you must last.
Ruth Gordon
There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.
Fay Weldon
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
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. . . . for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
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
It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.
Lillian Hellman
Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
Rita Mae Brown
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
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Jeff Valdez
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
I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
Mae West
In my sex fantasy nobody ever loves me for my mind.
Nora Ephron
Fear is the highest fence.
Dudley Nichols
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
When you've got the personality you don't need the nudity.
Mae West