Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain Resnais

I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

Al Pacino

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

Al Pacino

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

Akira Kurosawa

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

Dave Barry

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

M. Night Shyamalan

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.

Joaquin Phoenix

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

John Hughes

The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.

Charles Dickens

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

David Rudisha

I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working.

Pat Riley

We were a minute and a half away from the Finals -- big deal, ... It's about winning a championship.

Gary Waters

What has been forgotten is we did get to the finals of the NIT and I thought that was better than (losing) in the NCAA in the first round the way that team was.

E. O. Wilson

We're going to ice the strongest team we can because we want to finish with three victories to take into the finals weekend.

Bela Lugosi

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Alexandre Dumas

So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

Brian Tracy

In the final analysis, you always get paid for your results.

Bill Hicks

In the beginning God created the heavans and the earth... see you at the final.

Bill Withers

I would like to know how it feels for my desperation to get louder.

George R. R. Martin

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

Peter Lynch

When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.

Paula White

When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation.

J. K. Rowling

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

Laini Taylor

How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

Roberto Bolano

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

Veronica Roth

Desperation can make a person do surprising things.