637 quotes found
“I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.”
“I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of P...”
“Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is wha...”
“Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.”
“The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.”
“There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.”
“Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.”
“Character matters leadership descends from character. ”
“Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer e...”
“Obamacare is not about improved health care or cheaper insurance or better treatment or insuring the uninsured, and it never has been about that. It's about statism. It's about expanding the govern...”
“Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.”
“I am convinced that, despite what you think of Obama, I don't think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people. I think people love him because of his race and feel sorry for him, object o...”
“Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is.”
“Try to always stay focused on the objectives that are possible and the positive - and on having fun outside of the stuff that's going on in Washington.”
“I'm not afraid of having an agenda. I do have an agenda. It's a positive agenda.”
“I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.”
“As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback...”
“In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.”
“If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go t...”
“As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own s...”
