Making Quotes

I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey.

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you "don't have the time".

The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's still on the menu, and it's still as good as what you remember.

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

I was looking at making a shift in my career. I've been so blessed I'd like to be able to give that back. If I could find young artists, young performers I can nurture to have a career I would really like that.

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it is solidly funded until 2037.

I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

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.

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.