Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.
I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.
They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.
For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
That's when it hit me. The site is more important than me.
I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.
I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
It's harder to laugh than to cry.
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.
There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me.
I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
The way my body is viewed in the world is different than a male body. People are going to write about the performance, but they're probably also going to be writing about what I was wearing or my hair, which just doesn't happen to men.
There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.
I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed off. When I woke up, I thought I was back in a federal pen. But I did my time, and today no one is more of a free man than Chuck Zito.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.
I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.
Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.
There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.
Within each of us dwells a higher order of consciousness created with a possibility far greater than to merely appear and disappear as some form in the river of passing time.
I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.
