If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.
Everything we do on 'Luck' is absolutely no different than if we'd had been doing it in a feature film. There's no short cuts. The specificity of what every single line might mean. Everything Dustin Hoffman does. Kevin Dunn is as authentic in the las...
I gave my last concert in 1976. For 32 years, I had given everything I had. I wanted to stop. My last big debut was in Russia in 1973. After I retired, I didn't have to worry about going out in bad weather. I could stay up late.
Let me learn your interests and share them, tell me of your hopes and together we will attain them, and desire for nothing because as long as you're mine, if you should call forth the stars, I'll bring them down to you.
In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring Amer...
This issue of border security is not about, about ethnicity. I sit there on occasion with 10 or 12 sheriffs from my district, many of which are Democrats with last names like Reyes, with last names like Herrera and Lucio. And they are crying out for ...
J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That...
Title card: There was a land of cavaliers and cotton fields called the old south. Here in this pretty world gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of knights and their ladies fair. Of master and of slave. Look for it only in b...
Hermione: Harry! Are you alright? You must be freezing! Personally, I think you behaved admirably. Harry: I finished last, Hermione. Hermione: [kisses him on the top of the head] Next to last. Fleur never got past 'ze grindylows'!
Elsa: Dr. Jones? Indiana Jones: Yes? Elsa: I knew it was you, you have your father's eyes. Indiana Jones: And my mother's ears but the rest belongs to you. Elsa: It looks like the best parts have already been spoken for.
Indiana Jones: Half the German army's on our tail and you want me to go to Berlin? Into the lion's den? Professor Henry Jones: Yes. The only thing that matters is the Grail. Indiana Jones: What about Marcus? Professor Henry Jones: Marcus would agree ...
Walter Donovan: [points a gun at Indy] The Grail is mine. And you're going to get it for me. Indiana Jones: Shooting me won't get you anywhere. Walter Donovan: You know something, Dr. Jones? You're absolutely right. [He shoots Henry in the stomach]
Elsa: [to Indy after a kiss] How dare you kiss me! [She kisses him] Indiana Jones: [pulling away] Leave me alone, I don't like fast women. Elsa: [biting his ear] And I hate arrogant men.
Indiana Jones: [Indy bursts through the window into his father's room. He's hit on the head with a vase] Professor Henry Jones: Junior! Indiana Jones: [reflexively] Yes, sir! Professor Henry Jones: It IS you, Junior! Indiana Jones: Don't call me that...
Louis: Bear me no ill will, my love, we are now even. Claudia: What do you mean? Louis: What died in that room was not that woman. What has died is the last breath in me that was human. Claudia: Yes, Father. At last we are even.
[after Lazarus has been resurrected] Saul: How do you feel? Lazarus: I like the light. Saul: What was it like? Which is better: Death, or life? Lazarus: I was a little surprised... wasn't that much difference. [pause] Saul: Give me your hand. [stabs ...
Jesus: [stares at the heavens] Father, will you listen to me? Are you still there? Will you listen to a selfish, unfaithful son? I fought you when you called, I resisted! I thought of no more. I didn't want to be your son! Can you forgive me?
Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: Words are important. Pu Yi, at 15: Why are words important? Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he...
Cora Munro: Why were those people living in this defenseless place? Hawkeye: After seven years indentured service in Virginia, they headed out here 'cause the frontier's the only land available to poor people. Out here, they're beholden to none. Not ...
Duncan: And who empowered these colonials to pass judgement on England's policies, and to come and go without so much as a "by your leave"? Cora Munro: They do not live their lives "by your leave"! They hack it out of the wilderness with their own tw...
[first lines] Jack Crabb: I am, beyond a doubt, the last of the old-timers. My name is Jack Crabb. And I am the sole white survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn, uh, uh, popularly known as Custer's Last Stand.
