Zitat des Tages über Pierce:
I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.
I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.
Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview.
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.
The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old.
It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never been a character that's looked this extreme.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Charles Pierce, Bea Arthur, and I were like a terrible little trio.
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for 'Mildred Pierce.'
The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).
I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?
For me it's just amazing that I grew up watching Tim Duncan and KG and Kobe and Paul Pierce, Allen Iverson and all those guys and now it's like, 'Man, I can't believe they actually got old.' It's like they actually walked away. It's crazy to think about, but the game has to keep moving.
So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of that? Creating layer upon layer of artifice?' Perhaps the function is to pierce through that cloud and show reality - so the function of art is to make things - to show: 'Hang on, this is real.'
I'm always interested in what classic crime writers got into when they stepped away from the genre stuff they were known for. That's why 'Mildred Pierce' is like noir without any real crime.