Great Quotes

We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.

I've been extremely lucky to be a part of these really great shows that have gotten so much attention.

I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here.

The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then gotten picked up. I think it's a great opportunity for artists to get through the network roadblock. It just allows us another venue to be creative in.

I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.

And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

And I think people who sort of glibly say, 'Well, you know, they're not going to handle security, UAE is a great ally,' four and a half years ago, they were not an ally, they were working with the enemy, and if those same people are still there today that were there then, these are real serious issu

When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome. Y'know, we probably did bigger festivals since then; we probably headlined bigger festivals since then, but I will always remember that.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

I think 'SNL' is so well-known for its musical performances, as well, and people really breaking into America through a really great performance on there. So I think me and Gotye are both really excited to be amongst such company. You know, it's great.

If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.

What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, 'What do you want?' Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do tha

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

The Internet is a great information tool, and can be a place where kids learn, but we must remember that when kids are online, they are in public.

I'm not great at talking about myself.

He's a great kid. He hates the same way I do.