Quotes by Beck

“You have to respect who the character is. It has its own internal truth, and you can't betray that. And if you don't betray that, it will not betray you.”

“Spielberg read the 'Understudy' and decided that was the voice he wanted to write 'Smash.' He wanted a story that had humanity and humor and high-stakes dreams.”

“I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.”

“I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.”

“I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.”

“I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.”

“If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.”

“Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.”

“I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way. Sense of humor is definitely important. And sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins...”

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”

“All great and precious things are lonely.”

“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those tra...”

“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”

“I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluen...”

“Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.”

“You must go on.I can’t go on.I’ll go on.”

“Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passi...”

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”

“Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.”

“A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so yo...”