Quotes About Author

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time!

I'm very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

Your Majesty, I am like you. I do no work. I do nothing, but I am indispensable.

Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission — that's not bad politics, that's robbery.

I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

Do you work in a strip club?

To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.

One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.

...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

Carlisle: "I've seen vampire venom work miracles, but there are conditions that even venom cannot overcome."

Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

I don't want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.