Good Quotes

Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.

My theory about Jack is that he's not a very good parent.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.

If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison.

I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.

A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him.

My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.

I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.

I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.

I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.

When I do watch shows, or projects that I've been a part of, I'm pretty good at watching them objectively. And that's mostly because I want to see how it came out overall, what the overall story was and how it came together visually, what my mates were doing.

To be trained in karate is something because karate is a vicious thing. If you are any good at it, you can kill somebody with it. It is a vicious way to fight.

I think it's good for sporting justice that Ronaldo scored twice in the final.

Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good.

I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'.