Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
I lost my father when I was 13 years old. He was a great man, my father, and very intelligent. I love him very much. I believe it's very important that parents have a personal connection with their children. It helps kids feel more secure, have a feeling of family, makes them feel loved.
Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed. Frederick Douglass was a great man, but would I want my daughter to marry him? Probably not. That doesn't mean that I don't think he's a great man.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
I have been a part of the teams which had the original great man - Sachin Tendulkar. I remember in 2007-08 tour of Australia, Sachin paaji would get all the attention from the locals.
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
Joe Jackson is a great man. The problem that people have with my father is that he tells it like it is. He's just straight up and doesn't beat around the bush. Tough love.
The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.
My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you.
I don't know of any great man who ever had a great son.
There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
My father thought Gandhi was a great man. I suppose subconsciously, consciously even, I was aware that I wanted to please him and Ma, so I thought doing something like 'Gandhi' would be phenomenal.
I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.
It makes a big difference when men respect women. There are a lot of men who don't, so that's the main quality that would make a good man a great man.
Franco will bring the army from Castille. The ambassador will complain, causing a schism. Rivera's men will be part of the force. The great man will be denied entry to the gulf.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was amazed at the size. Would I ever be big enough to fill his shoes? Could I ever grow into the man my father was? I wondered.
In France, in Europe, the young artists of any generation always act as grandsons of some great man - Poussin, for example, or Victor Hugo. They can't help it. Even if they don't believe in that, it gets in their system. And so when they come to produce something of their own, the tradition is nearly indestructible.
I built a studio in L.A. for me and my brother to just write every single day. And it's been great, man.
Behind every great man is his wife trying to keep him alive.
But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad.
For me, it's just about keeping the standards up. We're a small country, so we have to punch above our weight. I'm not a great man for doing something just because it's Irish, and you never know what's going to work. But as long as we keep the standards up, people will continue to invest in films. It's as simple as that.
Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
