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.

Joan Chen

Even a year ago I was talking about going to law school. Because the lawyers I know get to meet a lot of different people.

Joseph Campbell

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

James Baker

At some point, the law must prevail and the lawyers must go home. We have reached that point,

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.

Doug Liman

It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can do a stunt.

Anne Parillaud

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

Daniel Day-Lewis

It must be hard interviewing actors.

Richard E. Grant

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

Samantha Morton

I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.

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.

Ben Schwartz

I did a lot of short films online, so I come from that background where a lot of people see your stuff.

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.

Frank Normile

We show great films at very reasonable prices.

Daniel Radcliffe

If I die on a film set when I'm 80, I'll be happy with that.

Clive Owen

I'd like to do a film which is funny.

Clive Owen

I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient.