Quotes by Screenwriters - Page 5

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
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
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
I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world but I succeeded because I keep going and going and going.
Sylvester Stallone
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
Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.
Gene Fowler
Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young plain old poverty can be enough along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it don't become a writer.
Leon Uris
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
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
I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
Françoise Sagan
What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women.
Edgar Wallace
Dennis Thatcher husband of Margaret Thatcher when asked who wore the pants in his house said "I do and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men domestic and foreign.
Mae West
If the world were a logical place men would ride sidesaddle.
Rita Mae Brown
Breathes there a man with hide so tough Who says two sexes aren't enough?
Samuel Hoffenstein
When women go wrong men go right after them.
Mae West
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
Adela Rogers St. John
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht
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
True love comes quietly without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells get your ears checked.
Erich Segal
Marriage is a great institution but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West
My wife thinks I'm too nosy. At least that's what she writes in her diary.
Drake Sather
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
Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.
Dick Sharpies
I do not believe in an afterlife although I am bringing a change of underwear.
Woody Allen
Life doesn't imitate art it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen
I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
Ninety percent of living is just showing up.
Woody Allen
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work I want to achieve it through not dying.
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
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
Philip Wylie
Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
Edward Bond
Decisions particularly important ones have always made me sleepy perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.
Lillian Hellman
I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
Ingmar Bergman
When I do things without any explanation but just with spontaneity ... I can be sure that I am right.
Federico Fellini
The truth of a thing is the feel of it not the think of it.
Stanley Kubrick
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's.
Billy Wilder
All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.
Rita Mae Brown
What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
Robert Altman
You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans.
Woody Allen
France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
Tom Stoppard
Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.
Roberto Rossellini
Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.
Ruth Gordon
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
Françoise Sagan
She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
Gail Parent
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
The worst that you can say about him (God) is that basically he's an underachiever.
Woody Allen