Far Quotes

Well, my favorite roles so far are Lucas and Lost Boys.

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.

I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.

I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.'

If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?

We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.

I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.