American Quotes

I would very much like to make Westerns. I love Westerns. I've worked on many Westerns in my youth, in Spain and here, and I love working on them.

I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.'

For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.

Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have.

I will cut all state taxes by at least one third.

I am running for governor of Kentucky as the people's advocate.

It's time for these people to have accountability for what is being done.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.

People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.