Great Quotes

Directing is not a job. It's more like a career. Which is great!

It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.

Nimbus is doing a great service with these excellently produced transformations of piano roll recordings.

Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists.

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.

By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.

I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.

It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

'Jackass: The Movie' is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.

As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.

Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.

I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.

As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.