Makes Quotes

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.

I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.

Politics makes me sick.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man.

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.