Dime Quotes

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.

Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

When I met my wife, my whole life changed on a dime, really quickly and for the better.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment.

But actors with political views are a dime a dozen.

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either.

I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.

I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.