To be an actor for 30-odd years trying to become recognized, and to end up playing a full prosthetic and a character 3 foot 9', or something like that, is... well, it just shows that you can get actors to do anything.
We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.
Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have another chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.
The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.
I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.
I'm not a doctor - so I can't describe flashbacks well - but it is like you're living it again.
Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.
San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.
What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
Whoever can surprise well must conquer.
I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen.
Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their way out and payphones had gone the way of dinosaurs. Because of their native fluency, Millennials recognize mobile phones can do a whole lot more than make calls, enable texting between friends or tweeting.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.
Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.
In the West, we look at art through life. Well, that's one way of living. In the Orient they look at life through art. They even drink their tea without sugar, for the same reason that they don't like a lot of frilly decorations on a painting. I can't stand butter on my bread for the same reason. I'm allergic to goo and rococo.
Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.
What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.
I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.
I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
