Why Quotes

The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss.

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve.

Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?

For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.

Why is there no respect for Joaquin Andujar?

Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united.

I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we're called 'Jews'? Because we come from Judea.

Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.