Him Quotes

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.

I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.

Paul and I don't see that much of each other these days, but I certainly still regard him as a friend.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.

I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him.

Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.

Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

And with Aaron, I'd have to find a reason not to work with him.

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life.

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guys' intentions are genuine and sincere,' it seems like they will embrace you again.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.