Henry Quotes

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.

I've played Henry Fonda's mother so often that, whenever we run into each other, I call him 'son' and he calls me 'Ma', just to save time.

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.

People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!' I was a nice guy too in the comedy 'Heartbreakers.' And I was a really sweet father to Johnny Depp in 'Blow!'

We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.

The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.