Right now I'd like to describe some of the incredible action that's going on down here. A man we believe might be a customer has just come from freshening up, and it looks like he's...leaving. No, wait a minute, he's paused there; maybe he's going to chat with Del Murdock, personable owner of Del's…
Catalog
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Liz: Would you consider not going to work today and taking me for a drive in the country? Barney: Liz, you heard the radio: shootings, bombings. It's my busy season.
Lt. Columbo: Hey, I'm sorry. I'm making a pest of myself. Ken Franklin: Naw! Lt. Columbo: Yes, yes, I am! I know, it's because I keep asking these questions, but I'll tell ya, I can't help myself. It's a habit.
Richie: We played chess. Fonzie: You played with her chest?
— Rob Reiner, Garry Marshall, Phil Mishkin, Richie Cunningham, Ron Howard, All the Way
Cataloging my virtues won't work, either... I hold them to a minimum so they're easy to keep track of.
Kyra has had her fair share of uncomfortable experiences as a model and as a woman, but that didn’t necessarily mean she knew what to do about them.
They don't love you like I love you.
Vans has announced that they'll be teaming up with Warner Bros. to drop an entire Harry Potter Vans collection.
— Vans, Vans is Releasing An Entire Harry Potter Sneaker Collection and No, This is NOT a Drill
Every heartbreak is another reminder that you’re the one that got away.
“We are trying to show a real person doing cool things as a real person, not trying to create a persona that isn’t actually you.”
I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. Back in the days when I thought of myself as a serious academic writer, I used to think that the only real theme was a fear of death, and that all the other themes were just that same fear, translated into fear of closeness, fear of loneliness, fear of di…
— Jack Nicholson, Interview with Jack Nicholson | Interviews | Roger Ebert
I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
— Jack Nicholson, Interview with Jack Nicholson | Interviews | Roger Ebert
A few years from now, if you can still portray a human being, you’ll be quite a valuable commodity. I intend to be there.
I don't think relationships are fixed things. People are necessarily complex and confused beings. We don't always do the right thing, say the right thing and behave the way we always want to behave.
I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away. I'd think that I could be in the middle of Africa, and I could always say 'excuse me,' and walk away. The thing is, though, the line of work I'm in now, I can't walk away. Because there is no 'away.' Wherever…
— Jack Nicholson, Interview with Jack Nicholson | Interviews | Roger Ebert
Looking over all of it, the single most obvious thing to me, in all we read and all we write about films, is this: People fear the creative moment. That’s why they talk so long about a given scene. But the creative moment is happening when the camera is turned on, and stops when it’s turned off. Fir…
For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which is the best part an actor brings to his work. These conscious ideas are only the springboard for what you hope will be the real meat from the unconscious.
You’ve got to be good at it, number one, and sustain it. There are no accidents. Any kind of sustained ability to go on working is because something is valid in the way you work. The star part is the commercial side of the business—and, frankly, no one knows anything about that.
I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it’s just more pollution of the airwaves. If you’re going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it.
The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic. I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did.