3 December 2020 William Friedkin The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor’s work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.
3 December 2020 Hector Elizondo I’m a parent, especially when you’ve had the intense parenting the way I had. It’s all in the bank. It’s all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That’s the stuff that makes your work rich, that’s what you dip into.
3 December 2020 Vera Wang There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.
3 December 2020 Jean-Michel Basquiat Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I’d think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix… I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
3 December 2020 Lydia M. Child Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
3 December 2020 Candice Bergen Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
3 December 2020 Leo Burnett A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain’t got nothin’.
3 December 2020 Chris Moneymaker But I want people to understand that poker’s not all glamorous, it’s not all being on TV and making tons of money. It’s a hard life. It’s a lot of travel. It’s a lot of weird hours.
3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
3 December 2020 Sun Tzu Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
3 December 2020 David Hume There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
3 December 2020 Jonah Hill I’m sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do ‘Superbad 2’ than ‘Moneyball.’ But I would love to do movies like ‘Superbad’ and movies like ‘Moneyball.’
3 December 2020 William Jennings Bryan My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
3 December 2020 Dennis Prager The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced – the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.
3 December 2020 Mel Gibson Above all, film is a business… Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.
3 December 2020 Lee Pace A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.
