Making Quotes

In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.

Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity.

My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat.

That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!

The key to making money is to stay invested.

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

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.

I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For the love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it's mostly about bottom line and making money.