Making Quotes

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

I'm very focused when I'm making a movie, but I'm also a fantastic multitasker.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.

People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.

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.