FastSaying

I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'


Sam Trammell

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON If I have a spare second, I usually catch up on the many magazines I'm behind on or watch the la...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN I thought, 'I'll come back to New York. I worked for the 'Aspen Times' when I lived ...
DARIN STRAUSS About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN I watch Letterman. Once in a while, on the odd night, I'll catch the Food Network and watch '...
AMANDA RIGHETTI I read the 'New York Times,' 'USA Today,' the 'Union-Tribune,' then go onlin...
STEVE BREEN I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT Some Sundays, I read it quickly - other Sundays, I savor it. I generally spend most of my time in &#...
BRAD FELD I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morni...
AARON SORKIN I'll go grocery shopping at the farmer's market on a Sunday and already know what I'm go...
TIA MOWRY I read the newspaper online. Mostly 'The New York Times.' I'll still buy papers if I'...
CONOR OBERST Most of the time, I don't even watch what I do on TV. I go in, get the job done, and just know i...
DAVID HEDISON I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really ki...
LEWIS BLACK If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time i...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,&...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it ...
EDDIE KAYE THOMAS On Saturday mornings, because I'm surfing a lot for the part in 'John From Cincinnati,' ...
AUSTIN NICHOLS To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been...
STEVE HARVEY Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until ...
DAVID CROSS As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not ...
JAMES ST. JAMES I love the op-ed pages of the 'L.A. Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New Y...
STEPHEN GAGHAN I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on t...
ADAM GARCIA But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD I eye 'Modern Love' warily between that second and third cup of coffee on Sunday mornings, c...
SANDRA TSING LOH I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, p...
PATRICK KANE The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it...
RANDALL PARK I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
NAS Growing up, my favorite group was New Edition. I loved the opportunity to do the remix to Bobby Brow...
CHRIS STOKES Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN When I opened the world's largest Internet cafe, certified by the 'Guinness Book of Records,...
STELIOS HAJI-IOANNOU Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won&...
CARL STOKES You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to ...
STEVE WYNN What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to b...
BILL RUSSELL I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL One way or another, we all fight for what we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?
TOM CLANCY, 'THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN' I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston...
KEVIN JAMES I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.
DANIEL LIBESKIND If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the ...
CAMILLA LACKBERG The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Li...
GORE VIDAL A lot of times we work across multiple platforms. We'll go to Japan working on the tsunami for &...
LESTER HOLT It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you...
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR

More Sam Trammell

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have ...
SAM TRAMMELL Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!
SAM TRAMMELL When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scie...
SAM TRAMMELL I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I ...
SAM TRAMMELL I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.
SAM TRAMMELL I definitely like to eat.
SAM TRAMMELL I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Van...
SAM TRAMMELL I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.
SAM TRAMMELL In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
SAM TRAMMELL There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
SAM TRAMMELL Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connectio...
SAM TRAMMELL When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now...
SAM TRAMMELL I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I&#...
SAM TRAMMELL I'm a vocabulary nerd.
SAM TRAMMELL In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control ...
SAM TRAMMELL Being a father is just wonderful.
SAM TRAMMELL When I wake up, I'll go through emails on my iPhone - the junk email. At that point, my brain is...
SAM TRAMMELL I don't get sick of being naked, but the added pressure is staying in really good shape, because...
SAM TRAMMELL A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns...
SAM TRAMMELL When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you ...
SAM TRAMMELL There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Or...
SAM TRAMMELL I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
SAM TRAMMELL It is easy to second-guess me, but it was my call. I'd like someone to give me a guarantee that Davi...
ALAN TRAMMELL I just think with the options we have that it's my best option, ... even though he has not pitched w...
ALAN TRAMMELL In 2003, (Bonderman) was the best guy for the job, to be honest with you. We didn't have guys in the...
ALAN TRAMMELL I don't think Jeremy was sharp. Velocity-wise he was fine, but location he was not. He didn't have i...
ALAN TRAMMELL He had a cramp and just couldn't get rid of it. He was in the dugout later in the game, so that was ...
ALAN TRAMMELL I'm not counting on it. I'd like to say maybe he'd be available to pinch-hit, but as far as playing ...
ALAN TRAMMELL He started in Double-A and made it to Triple-A, which is a good sign,
ALAN TRAMMELL This is exactly what the Detroit Tigers need. He's what I call a good ballplayer who does a little b...
ALAN TRAMMELL He doesn't appear to let things bother him. That was a tough situation.
ALAN TRAMMELL This guy is so valuable, we want to make sure he's OK. Hopefully it's just one start.
ALAN TRAMMELL There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.
TRAMMELL CROW There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.
TRAMMELL CROW Whether I'm there or not, I'll always be a Tiger, and I'll always root for the Tigers.
ALAN TRAMMELL It's pressure,
ALAN TRAMMELL He felt it warming up a little bit, but thought it was nothing,
ALAN TRAMMELL We got a few runs off Colon and that was very pleasing. It feels great to win here.
ALAN TRAMMELL Like a lot of guys, Pudge has tried to do too much. Yes, he's a free swinger -- to a limit. This yea...
ALAN TRAMMELL One guy we'll call up for sure is Marcus Thames .
ALAN TRAMMELL I think everybody in the ballpark was thinking 'could it happen?' ... but there's no category for al...
ALAN TRAMMELL Those guys are celebrating and they deserve it.
ALAN TRAMMELL We've said it before, when Carlos Pena hits a home run -- wow! That might be the furthest ball ever ...
ALAN TRAMMELL I told him I'd need to take some time to make some decisions, and he was fine with that. I'd like to...
ALAN TRAMMELL How important is he to the club? My gosh, he's at the top of the list.
ALAN TRAMMELL If I leave, I leave with my head high, ... I know in my own mind we're making some headway, I believ...
ALAN TRAMMELL But it was a heck of a performance by our bullpen. Obviously it will be forgotten, but they deserve ...
ALAN TRAMMELL Thank God you didn't do that to him, ... Your dog, maybe, but not your son. They would have picked o...
ALAN TRAMMELL There's a lot of work to be done. They don't deny it.
ALAN TRAMMELL Nothing's been promised, ... It was an opportunity to talk baseball and tell them why I think I'm a ...
ALAN TRAMMELL Really, I'm OK. I'm a big boy. I've been through enough that I understand how things are.
ALAN TRAMMELL I'm sure we'll discuss quite a few things, to be honest with you.
ALAN TRAMMELL I hope I get to continue with this because there is some unfinished business. I'm going to be in bas...
ALAN TRAMMELL We broke out today, it's been awhile.
ALAN TRAMMELL Somewhere after the All-Star break he started dropping down a little more, especially to the right-h...
ALAN TRAMMELL The first three innings were the key. We had a lot of opportunities, but we didn't score. That came ...
ALAN TRAMMELL You give them a little avenue, ... and you saw what happened.
ALAN TRAMMELL I'd say, right now, he's their ace. They have a few aces as far as I'm concerned.
ALAN TRAMMELL Monday will be a big day. But I'm fine. I'm not worried about it. I'll deal with it.
ALAN TRAMMELL I don't want a setback,
ALAN TRAMMELL Inexcusable. It really bothers me.
ALAN TRAMMELL Back to one run again -- that's not going to cut it. Score one run and there's a low percentage of w...
ALAN TRAMMELL I think there's a possibility he'll be activated this weekend.
ALAN TRAMMELL You would like to hold them off as long as possible and to be honest, we did that. Congratulations t...
ALAN TRAMMELL In the sixth, not being able to block the ball, that was huge. We might still be playing. ... We did...
ALAN TRAMMELL If those comments stir things up a little bit, that's OK, because we're all accountable,
ALAN TRAMMELL He's a little taller (in his batting stance), a little more aggressive to the ball. He's not collaps...
ALAN TRAMMELL [Manager Alan Trammell wouldn't put a timetable on when Guillen might return to the lineup.] There's...
ALAN TRAMMELL In my opinion, it's a sleeping giant.
ALAN TRAMMELL Not too shabby. Getting out of that first inning was huge for him, because you could see he was nerv...
ALAN TRAMMELL Down the stretch, we've been struggling with our pitching staff, but he's taken the ball. He's been ...
ALAN TRAMMELL This is a big win for the playoff situation,
ALAN TRAMMELL We're doing our job,
ALAN TRAMMELL I don't want to get ahead of ourselves, ... but if he continues like this, we'd have to rethink some...
ALAN TRAMMELL There's no question this guy has a special arm, but he's still a little raw.
ALAN TRAMMELL We both came in and worked. We were both getting sicker and sicker and sicker by the day.
DENISE TRAMMELL I'm afraid of not getting support or not being able to see our regular customers. They're important ...
DENISE TRAMMELL Just the guilt of the unborn babies is enough. Also, I have asthma and if I get sick, it becomes dou...
DENISE TRAMMELL I decided today when the smoke poured through the serving window and I had to move away from the gri...
DENISE TRAMMELL Our area central and southern Minnesota has taken the brunt of it.
KAREN TRAMMELL I give those guys credit over there, ... They have a worse record. They're battling. And that's what...
ALAN TRAMMELL My heart only beats for you but you never listen it
SAM You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go
SAM Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons close...
SAM KEAN Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
SAM WALTON Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normal...
SAM YAGAN A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde...
SAM HOUSTON Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
SAM KEEN We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly...
SAM KEEN It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he woul...
SAM LEVENSON You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what...
SAM RAYBURN The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
SAM RAYBURN I like power and I like to use it.
SAM RAYBURN Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
SAM RAYBURN If you want to get along, go along.
SAM RAYBURN When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
SAM RAYBURN Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
SAM RAYBURN Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
SAM RAYBURN You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
SAM RAYBURN I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil...
SAM RAIMI Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo...
SAM RAIMI Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha...
SAM RAIMI R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
SAM RAIMI I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan makin...
SAM RAIMI I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ...
SAM RAIMI My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never...
SAM RAIMI I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
SAM RAIMI Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ...
SAM RAIMI It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
SAM RAIMI As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ...
SAM RAIMI I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the...
SAM RAIMI I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
SAM RAIMI I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit...
SAM RAIMI I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall...
SAM RAIMI I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me the...
SAM RAIMI I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr...
SAM RAIMI I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr...
SAM RAIMI You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ...
SAM RAIMI I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an...
SAM RAIMI Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
SAM RAIMI That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca...
SAM RAIMI If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
SAM RAIMI I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct...
SAM RAIMI When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the...
SAM RAIMI I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
SAM RAIMI The Price Is Right can really get me going.
SAM PECKINPAH Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
SAM PECKINPAH Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
SAM PECKINPAH Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
SAM PECKINPAH The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
SAM PECKINPAH Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin...
SAM PALLADIO My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never...
SAM PALLADIO As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ...
SAM PALLADIO I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
SAM PALLADIO If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'...
SAM PALLADIO Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
SAM NEILL 'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
SAM NEILL I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'...
SAM NEILL I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co...
SAM NEILL I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love...
SAM NEILL As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
SAM NEILL When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr...
SAM NEILL I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T...
SAM NEILL If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain...
SAM NEILL I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
SAM NEILL Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
SAM NEILL People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
SAM NEILL I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i...
SAM NEILL I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
SAM NEILL I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a...
SAM NEILL No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
SAM NEILL Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ...
SAM MENDES It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi...
SAM MENDES For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
SAM MENDES One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi...
SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
SAM MENDES Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o...
SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey.
SAM MENDES If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
SAM MENDES I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ...
SAM MENDES One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
SAM MENDES All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which...
SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
SAM MENDES I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m...
SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th...
SAM MENDES The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts...
SAM MENDES You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,...
SAM MENDES I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
SAM MENDES The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w...
SAM MENDES I don't think good and evil are polarized.
SAM MENDES I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is...
SAM MENDES It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu...
SAM MENDES I want to inspire, and be inspired.
SAM MENDES Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
SAM LEVENSON I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
SAM LEVENSON Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, b...
SAM LEVENSON The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still an...
SAM LEVENSON When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem ...
SAM LEVENSON You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
SAM LEVENSON One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your im...
SAM LEVENSON Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' c...
SAM LEVENSON It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
SAM LEVENSON We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got t...
SAM LEVENSON I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
SAM LEVENSON Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
SAM LEVENSON Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
SAM LEVENSON If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her l...
SAM LEVENSON You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all...
SAM LEVENSON I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
SAM KINISON I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you ...
SAM KINISON I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to wo...
SAM KINISON I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
SAM KINISON Everything can be satirized.
SAM KINISON I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'...
SAM KINISON