Great Quotes

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.

For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.

I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.

I find great lighting and a squint of the eyes makes anyone look better.

All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great.

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.

Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.

Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

It's like any great medicine that works. It tastes absolutely lousy going down, but ultimately helps and heals you. And that's what Juilliard was. Juilliard is classical training. They don't really want to focus on what you do well - that's what got you into the school. They're training you to do ot

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

At one point, they offered me this part to play a drug-dealing, gun-selling butch lady. I don't know how to describe her but she had like a crew cut and stuff. I was like, 'Is this a joke?' And they said, 'No, we think it would be great because everyone would be like, 'Oh, look at what we've done to

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.

Our all-volunteer force continues to prove itself with a great level of professionalism, personal commitment and a technical competence that is quite remarkable.

Great Britain revolutionized parts of their regulatory process by actually bringing the people who were going to be regulated to the table and suddenly found that they could solve the problems at a lot lower cost by, again, going back to the thing that tends to be most uninteresting, particularly in