Well Quotes

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.

As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.

Well, I'm an optimist.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.