Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boss Tweed

The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

Bashar al-Assad

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

Benjamin Disraeli

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

Bill James

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

Edmund Burke

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Elihu Root

I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.

Kevin Soucie

The resolution does not make it law. It also has to be certified by the secretary of state, which they haven't done yet. I think they (Orr) are having second thoughts about it, and they should.

Irwin Redlener

The translation of this is martial law in the United States,

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Ayelet Zurer

Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.

Dan Stevens

I always wanted to be an actor.

Daniel Craig

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

Alec Guinness

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

Mathieu Amalric

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I dont know why.

Martin Scorsese

I do prefer doing more takes. There's something very organic that comes from the first take, but certain things come out. More details come out, in the way another actor says something. It's always this investigative process. You come further and further to the truth, the more you escalate. I like to do a lot of takes. I have a hunger for it. I like to see what there is to discover in a scene, that hasn't been thought of.

Megan Hilty

As an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

Nicolas Cage

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

Mads Mikkelsen

I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.

Rob Bibler

I've wanted to do a series on great directors, and I think the idea was, in part, to show films that have this status of great craftsmanship.

Brian K. Vaughan

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.

Park Chan-wook

Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

Cheryl Ladd

T.V. is the place to do the kind of films that were done in the 40s and 50s: the little guy against the system. There are so many opportunities in T.V. to do more character pieces. Everything is so hard-edged in features.

Adepero Oduye

My intention is to do more films.

Anna Torv

In film, you can have sad endings.

Amy Weber

I see myself starring in and producing major feature films.

Alex North

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Alec Guinness

My contribution to film has always been negligible.