Tell Quotes

When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.

I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead.

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.

I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything.

I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.