When you make a film for a million and a half dollars and it opens at 20 million, the next question out of everyone's mouth is, 'When's the next one, when's the next one, when's the next one?'
We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
Reaching beyond ourselves, exceeding our mind is not a simple thing. It is, in fact, impossible–one half of the Ego is trying to exceed the other.
I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.
There's probably a half-dozen movie actors I really like. But a lot of them just aren't that interesting.
I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.
The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.
Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other.
We're committed to working with Congress to doing what the president said he was always going to do, which is cut the deficit in half over the - over his first term.
I've purged myself of worldly goods; half my stuff is either being sold or going to charity. I need to go shopping.
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.
I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.
Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.
But now the other half of "us" was gone and, lying there in my shadowy room, I'd be struck with this realization that I had no clue how to be just me again.
The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.
When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.
Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.
The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.
There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing.
You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.
