Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alden Ehrenreich

When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

M. Night Shyamalan

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.

Leslie Cockburn

I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.

Nicolas Roeg

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!

Nicolas Roeg

I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.

Tom Freston

We want to produce films here, we don't want to just distribute. We want to work with Indian producers.

Norman Jewison

Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.

Martin Freeman

The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious.

Edmund Wilson

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Ahmed Ben Bella

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.

Michael Feldman

I was always a fan of Groucho Marx as a kid.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

Spike Jonze

I've got to say, I've probably seen a lot more of the Three Stooges than of the Marx Brothers.

Laura Smith

When you've been through stuff together, you become a team.

When you talk about 50 tons of anything, that's a lot. We used to throw all of that stuff into the ground.

I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do.

Know your stuff. Have an angle. Know how to grow business, how to develop products, have patents and an undeveloped market that could be huge.

Spike Lee

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

Lesley Manville

I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.

Fred Davis

When I was a freshman, a lot of stuff I thought I knew, but I really didn't.

Steve Cleveland

When we got here in May, we had some time. Some were already committed. Some said, considering the stuff that was going on, they weren't interested.

Jeff Tittel

What he (Campbell) is dishing out is the stuff that's in the septic tanks,

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Mark Ruffalo

I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.