Quotes About Discernment

Quite frankly, Oklahomans are pretty smart. They know how to choose candidates.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.

I have never accepted any random offers for the sake of being a regular face in the film industry.

You just touch on things. You don't go round the room describing the furniture.

I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective.

Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

I think we do have to take off the gloves in some areas, but within balance, and at the right time and the right way, and for the right reason and with full understanding of what the consequences of that might be.

My agents and my managers are very good at whittling things down to the things they think I would be good at and that I'd respond well to, and that includes theater, TV and film. Whatever it is, if the material is right for me, then I'll go for it.

I think, as I've gone on, I've got a sense that there are some laughs I want, and some laughs I don't want.

When I was a kid, I thought good acting was fascinating, and I could tell the difference. I could see that at like 9 years old.

Not really a good idea to eat things fans have made because you don't know what state of mind they were in when they made them.

I have a certain kind of a taste for what will make a good movie or a good play or theater.

I think I go with the Duke Ellington view on music. He said, 'There's two kinds of music - there's good music, and then there's the other kind.'

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

I feel I do not have script sense. Like Kartik Aaryan has a very good script sense.

I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.

I am bound to get carried away by anyone who approaches me with a good script.

Good things, you can't rush into them.

What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.

When you celebrate somebody's bad work on the terms that define their good work, how can that artist have anything but contempt for an audience that can't tell the good from the bad?

Beware of a Yankee when he is feeding

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere. It sees plainly the real worth of men and things, and is not easily imposed upon by the dressed up emptiness of human pride.