Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
There's one thing about TV that I really think is true. If you find the right cast and the right writers, and you got some chemistry going, even if a show is taking a little while to find an audience, if you keep it there, that audience will find it. Because that's what happened with 'Cheers.'
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.
I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true.
We have a unique opportunity as Disney because it really is the only true global entertainment brand.
I think it's so important that, if I'm writing about the real world, I stay true to it. I think that kids do compartmentalize, and they're hopefully able to see it from a safe place of their own lives and, through that, learn something about empathy.
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
You have to be true to your instinctive way of writing. You have to find your identity.
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.
To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.
What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
There are definitely people who are stuck in the '60s and there are definitely people who think I am and it's just not true. I was performing for a long time before the '60s and I'll be doing exciting interesting things for along time to come.
Every once in a while I play a true idiot, and they're really fun to play.
Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.
I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
It's funny: I've always had the analogy of a snow globe, that Hollywood is a snow globe. No, it's true. If you shake it up, you can look at it and really enjoy it. But don't ever go in. Don't ever buy into it and be like, 'I deserve all of this!' because it can go away at any time, so just have a lot of fun.
It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.
Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience.
I just want to make great music. There's not a genre that I would categorize it as, but I want it to be true and authentic.
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices.
From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government.
Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.
People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in my head and I live in that village, and it's true. When I start writing a book, characters from previous books reappear. All my emotions, my mind, my heart, my dreams, everything becomes connected with a new book, and nothing else really matters.
It was a dream come true working with Johnny Depp. He's always been my acting idol. Working with him and watching him work taught me a lot as an actor. He's very down to earth and a lot of fun to hang out with.
If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet.
True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.
