Nights Quotes

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm cleaning my office and decided that I'd better read this before the guy calls me back. I never put it down, bro.

That's kind of the theme of Own the Night. It's about those nights that are so memorable you could live them forever.

Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called The Best of Jazz and that still goes out on Monday nights. That's been going for 33 years or something.

I am awake a lot of nights.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

Real estate is my life. It is my day job, if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends, too.

I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.

A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.

All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.

I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.

I have sleepless nights before press days.

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.

I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.

I had a mouse in my apartment and I couldn't sleep for two nights. I hate mice. They move so fast.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?

At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn't do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.