Making Quotes

I've always sort of admired and respected one's ability to be comfortable with other people's discomfort or, you know, their being comfortable making other people uncomfortable.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

I have been accused of making people laugh, maybe when it's not appropriate, during scenes.

I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.

The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.

I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.

When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.