Takes Quotes

We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most.

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard.

You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

When you're a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.

The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.

There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths.

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.