I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters that are simmering rage and calculated. There's a trend not to play anything that is opposed to that.
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.
Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do everything - you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.
Chinese General: It's not in my best interest to say this Frank, but quitting while you're ahead, is not the same as quitting.
General Garrison: If we don't hold down this city we are gonna have 100 caskets to fill by morning.
Lt. General Horrocks: This is a story you will tell your grandchildren; and mightily bored they'll be.
Field Marshall Walther Model: Why do all my generals want to destroy my bridges?
Colonel Saito: Let me remind you of General Yamashita's motto: be happy in your work.
General Sternwood: I assume they have all the usual vices, besides those they've invented for themselves.
Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent.
If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.
I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.
These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
