Steal Quotes

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot.

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

I steal from every movie ever made.

And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever.

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?

The reality is that people think it's okay to steal music.

If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research.

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.