Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darby Stanchfield

Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around, there's show tunes and fart noises.

e. e. cummings

I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.

Dustin Hoffman

We're not allowed in the cutting room - and that's extraordinary. So, when a director is asking for certain nuances and colours and we feel that they're phoney, but we do it because the director asks for it, that's the one that they pick in the cutting room. And I contend that when you see a movie with bad acting, don't blame the actor... blame those guys in the cutting room because they like that take.

Dustin Hoffman

Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies... every single one of us.

Dustin Hoffman

I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?

Drew Goddard

I try not to get too cute for cute's sake.

Donald Trump

You know, [congressmen] can talk about sequester, they can talk about all of the different things that they've - they're doing. But this isn't like we have a choice. This is something where - and we're gonna be cutting elements of government certainly.

Donald Trump

[ Tax cut ] will create tremendous numbers of new jobs. But regulations, [Hillary Clinton] are going to regulate these businesses out of existence.

Donald Trump

You [Hillary Clinton] are going to approve one of the biggest tax cuts in history.

Donald Trump

I'm going to cut taxes big league, and you're going to raise taxes big league, end of story.

Donald Trump

I'm going to cut regulations.

Donald Trump

When I go around, despite the tax cut, the thing - the things that business as in people like the most is the fact that I'm cutting regulation.

Donald Trump

By the way, my tax cut is the biggest since Ronald Reagan. I'm very proud of it.

Donald Trump

I am going to cut taxes massively. I am going to cut business taxes massively. They're going to start hiring people.

Donald Trump

Well, my plan, actually Larry Kudlow, who's a fantastic guy, I think likes my plan the most. I'm cutting taxes by about the most.

Donald Trump

I'm cutting taxes. We're going to grow the economy. It's going to grow at a record rate of growth.

Daniel Dennett

It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why.

Dan Castellaneta

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

David Mamet

A novel it's different. It's kind of exhilarating not to have to cut to the bone constantly. Oh, well I can go over here for a moment. I can say what I think the guy was thinking or what the day looked like or what the bird was doing. If you do that as a playwright, you're dead.

David Frum

You've worked hard all your life. You've paid Medicare taxes for almost 30 years. But under the Republican plan, Medicare won't be there for you. Instead of Medicare as it exists now, under the Republican plan you'll get a voucher that will pay as little as half your Medicare costs when you turn 65—and as little as a quarter in your 80s. And all so that millionaires and billionaires can have a huge tax cut.

David Foster Wallace

I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.' ... 'I don't mind,' Hal said softly. 'I could wait forever.' 'That's what you think,' the voice said. The connection was cut.

David Foster Wallace

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.

David Ayer

As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem cutting the scenes.

Darren Criss

I'm always just waiting for someone to cut me off; I'm a chatty guy.

David Zucker

I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.

David Zucker

I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it.

David Spade

I want to get away from it all. Move to the sticks. Montana. Hundreds of miles from civilization. Get a cabin in the snow. Curl up with some cute girl. Say stuff to her like, Scream all you want, sugar. Ain't nobody gonna hear you!

David Petraeus

Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut their ties with al Qaeda and essentially become productive or at least participating members of society in that regard.

David Lynch

I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut.

Daniel Tosh

I'm all for women who get plastic surgery, because plastic surgery allows you to make your outer appearance resemble your inner appearance — fakeWe have shows like Extreme Make-Over: “I don't want to develop a personality, just cut my face! Stretch it and staple it. Now I'm happy, or at least I look like it.

Daniel Tosh

I don't want to develop a personality, just cut my face! Stretch it and staple it. Now I'm happy, or at least I look like it.

Daniel Tosh

The only advice I have for youth is to date outside your race. I just think it's so cute when I see little kids in interracial relationships; it makes me feel like I'm watching a commercial.

Cy Twombly

I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?