How Quotes

Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.

How young can you die of old age?

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

I just go out there and fight for every point, and then we see how far I can go.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

I learned how to cook and do a lot of marital things.

I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.

When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.