Takes Quotes

Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four.

People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.

Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.

I've chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous - it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.

Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.