Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allison Anders

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

Melanie Griffith

I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.

Josie Bissett

I've sort of mellowed out. It used to be: I want to be a star, do big movies. Now, being married, it's like the reasons I wanted to do that seem the wrong reasons. I want to have kids.

Golshifteh Farahani

The subjects that I am working are movies that say something. They are shouting or criticising something. I would hate to play a princess waiting for the prince to come and give her a kiss.

Dick Wolf

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

Eugene Levy

tons of movies are shot in Toronto, but Toronto is never Toronto.

Rogers Johns

The motion picture is the people's Art.

Steve Erickson

There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.

Charlie Tahan

I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young.

Artie Lange

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'

Rick Majerus

I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas.

Thomas Jefferson

In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

Michael Franzese

I've seen many lives destroyed. I've seen more people have problems with gambling than I have with drugs and alcohol. And there are some serious consequences if you get in over your head.

Michael Jordan

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

Francoise Sagan

Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

Vincent Truglia

Japan is gambling that its policies will result in beneficial, self-sustaining results.

John Waldron

That's the million-dollar question. Why would such a good kid with so much promise do this? We know he had a gambling addiction, but why didn't he seek other options? That has everyone scratching their heads.

Jean de la Bruyere

An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.

Brandon Routh

I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.

Jane Gardam

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

Aristotle

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

Anthony Michael Hall

First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.

Thomas Jefferson

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

Robert Boyle

In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.

Stephen Chbosky

He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.

Stephen Colbert

No matter how you were born, no matter how you identify, I want to be clear that I would be proud to grind you up and eat you.

Victoria Woodhull

It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent; and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?