Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: We would have injected vitamin C if only they had made it illegal!
One summer vacation, I carried water to the town market to sell it, and I used some of the money I made to help a neighbour.
I've never made any money off of any of my films. Statement of fact. So without commercial work, I would be in big trouble.
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training.
I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.
If I was a businessman, I could have made a huge amount of money. But none of that really crossed my mind while I was young and traveling.
We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.
I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief.
Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
It really does mean so much when your cast mates, who you respect so much, tell you that you made them laugh.
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian.
The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia.
Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.
The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
