Been Quotes

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.