Clarence Worley: I mean, she... she a four alarm fire or what?
Eddie Valiant: Scotch on the rocks... and I MEAN ICE!
To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office.
I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.
The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.
If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.
I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.
In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.
Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.
PR is extremely important, and being able to use it in the right way means everything. You have to market your success.
I'm always looking for something that tells me a little bit about what it means to be human. That's how I measure the success of any artistic endeavor.
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
