Making Quotes

I'm not really interested in making money.

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

You know, when you're making a record, you come up with 15, 20 songs. Then they start to fall by the wayside as your interest wanes. It's kind of like a process of elimination to determine which songs wind up on the record.

The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.

How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.

In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.

I'm making little changes in my life to take care of myself, like putting in a mile or two on my treadmill every day.

Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for kosher.

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

I was hoping for it to be possibly a movie career as I still would like to see that happen. I enjoyed making 200 Motels and did try out for a few things when I lived in LA, but nothing ever happened. I'm still hoping though.

I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

I've been subject to how many security clearance procedures and I must say as irritating as some people may find them I think they are absolutely essential to making sure that people who work in sensitive positions in the national security field in our government are entirely loyal to the United States.

I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot.

You know, I'm not making top dollar, but when you're making top dollar, there are a lot of people waiting for you to fall.

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.

I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.

People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.