Quotes by Screenwriters - Page 6

The worst that you can say about him (God) is that basically he's an underachiever.
Woody Allen
The object of war is to survive it.
John Irving
What else are we gonna live by if not dreams? We need to believe in something. What would really drive us crazy is to believe this reality we run into every day is all there is. If I don't believe that there's a happy ending out there-that will-you-marry-me in the sky-I can't keep working today.
Jill Robinson
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
The main obligation is to amuse yourself.
S.J. Perelman
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree-they bear no fruit.
Frances Marion
Remember if people talk behind your back it only means you're two steps ahead!
Fannie Flagg
The only people who attain power are those who crave for it.
Erich Kästner
Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.
Mae West
A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic yet it seems like it's a great secret.
Leon Uris
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Billy Wilder
He who hesitates is last.
Mae West
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Stanley Kubrick
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen
So often the truth is told with hate and lies are told with love.
Rita Mae Brown
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
Lillian Hellman
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Mae West
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
Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
Zoe Akins
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
Family is just accident. . . . They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family they just are.
Marsha Norman
Adults are just children who earn money.
Kenneth Branagh
Youth I Stay close to the young and a little rubs off.
Alan Jay Lerner
All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors of lights and darkness of movement of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.
Ingmar Bergman
To be somebody you must last.
Ruth Gordon
Faith is ... knowing with your heart.
N. Richard Nash
If you're gonna be a failure at least be one at something you enjoy.
Sylvester Stallone
If you're not failing you're not trying anything.
Woody Allen
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
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
A peacefulness follows any decision even the wrong one.
Rita Mae Brown
If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you.
Mary Pickford
Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
Marsha Norman
When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
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
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
To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Françoise Sagan
You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.
Federico Fellini
If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you don't you have achieved half your failure.
David V. A. Ambrose
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire women will like him.
Mae West
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
Paul Gallico
Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.
Garson Kanin
Death is a door life opens.
Adela Rogers St. John
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Woody Allen
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman
If you are willing to take the punishment you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial the battle ugly is another point.
Lillian Hellman
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton
Courage is very important. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon
That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference.
Ruby Dee
Showing up is eighty percent of life.
Woody Allen
I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it.
Woody Allen
They say love is blind . . . and marriage is an insritution. Well I'm nor ready for an instirurion for rhe blind just yet.
Mae West
You can't try to do things you simply must do them.
Ray Bradbury
There is such a thing as too much couth.
S.J. Perelman
I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.
Woody Allen
I'm not the heroic type really. I was beaten up by Quakers.
Woody Allen
Oozing charm from every pore He oiled his way around the floor.
Alan Jay Lerner