Some Quotes

Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.

I've been out with some extremely beautiful women who have had no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection.

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

Some people aren't touchy-feely, but I grew up in a family where you'd walk into the family room and there'd be five people on the couch with an arm here, an arm there, everyone scratching and taking turns.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.

Some things can be done as well as others.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.

I consider myself very lucky. God has a funny way of bringing some things around and knocking you in the head with the ultimate destination. Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. It came in His time, not mine.

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

I'll tell you what, I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game.