Making Quotes

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.

I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.

I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up.

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised me is the magnitude of this show's success. More people see me now in one episode than saw me in 20 years of movies and theater!

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

I loved the last album, and it was one hundred percent me. But this is like me two years later, who understands a little bit more about music and understands a little bit more about making an album. I wrote a lot more.

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.

I can't stand making records.

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

Is there anything better than making a kid laugh?

I think most of America is seeing the strings behind the campaign, and sees the crass political maneuvers that people are making. I mean, they're extremely apparent to me.

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.