- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in spend-down. I've got a billion in cash. You can't leave people a billion pounds, can you?
- Big Shoes
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There's not that much difference.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musicians get tense at big gigs. Some you can't talk to before the concert; some you can't talk to afterwards; some need the same size dressing rooms as others; others need bigger; some have comments to make on others' musicianship or how a particular song ought to be played.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I deal with a lot of wonderful gay people. I hire a lot of them. I use a lot of them. I respect them. They're terrific. I am good friends with them. But you live your life the way you want to live, and I'll live mine, and I won't stick my nose in yours.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith is my foundation because you work on a faith basis that you believe God has his hand on you.
- Sad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
As business moves forward, you realize that God has his hand on the whole business and that he brought people to you who are like-minded. It starts with faith.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can get in and out of credit cards in a hurry. Not so easy to get in and out of mortgages.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've lived as long I've lived, you see things from a bigger lens, and you try to share that with the young guys coming up, including being patient.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to move in life, but the loyalty you develop in a community is always remembered. But if you leave, you don't pick it up in the next town. It's not an add-on, you know, because you lose what you had.
- Comply
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- Nov 07, 2020