Often Quotes

I am always surprised at what movie studios think people will want to see. I'm even more surprised at how often they are correct.

They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.

Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.

A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems.

Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

We've become a country that is often risk averse. That's not the way to succeed.

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day, I'm going to work out.' There are some days that I just don't feel like doing it, and I don't. But more often than not I get up and I get on the treadmill that I want to shoot and just do it. The first 20 minutes are the hardest.

It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.