Making Quotes

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.

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago.

I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

I'm grateful that the team allowed me back. I'm looking forward to making it up to them.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.

Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record.

You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.