Barry Levinson quote: "I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever."

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and e...
BARRY LEVINSON

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some...
BARRY LEVINSON

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct...
BARRY LEVINSON

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
BARRY LEVINSON

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exerci...
BARRY LEVINSON

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked...
BARRY LEVINSON

The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc...
BARRY LEVINSON

It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the...
BARRY LEVINSON

Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.
BARRY LEVINSON

You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
BARRY LEVINSON

Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so ...
BARRY LEVINSON

Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. A...
BARRY LEVINSON

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down...
BARRY LEVINSON

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you ...
BARRY LEVINSON

It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of l...
BARRY LEVINSON

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which be...
BARRY LEVINSON

Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so ...
BARRY LEVINSON

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and e...
BARRY LEVINSON

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expe...
BARRY LEVINSON

They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they...
BARRY LEVINSON

Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation. All I tr...
BARRY LEVINSON

Personally and professionally, we had a great relationship. It was just a perfect fit. He shared a s...
BARRY LEVINSON

Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future
BARRY LEVINSON

What's tomorrow going to be like?
BARRY LEVINSON

A View From the Bridge
BARRY LEVINSON

If you don't believe in your product, of if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote...
JAY LEVINSON

In order to sell a product or a service, a company must establish a relationship with the consumer. ...
JAY LEVINSON

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be...
SAM LEVINSON

I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving ...
SAM LEVINSON

Put simply, the governor does not support tax increases and is opposed to Proposition 82 because it ...
KATIE LEVINSON

In the public's mind, when you become famous in any way, you can go into politics,
PAUL LEVINSON

Today's audiences are vastly more savvy than even audiences of 10 years ago, thanks to all the movie...
PAUL LEVINSON

The media rose to the occasion, shone their light on the desolation and the needy, and kept it focus...
PAUL LEVINSON

This time, the media was right on the story, right on the scene, right away.
PAUL LEVINSON

If your handwriting is barely legible, it makes them think that you are not really an organized pers...
ADAM LEVINSON

It's like night and day when you compare this to 9-11, when the national trauma was so severe that t...
PAUL LEVINSON

Today, if knowledge of a movie is out there for a while, it may increase its appeal. It builds up a ...
PAUL LEVINSON

But I think it would be tougher for Walken than it was for Reagan. His weird roles might harm him.
PAUL LEVINSON

It's part of our heritage, part of our culture. The more we move into cities, the more cool we try t...
PAUL LEVINSON

The last thing you want to do, if you are investing dreams, energy and money into a city edition, is...
PAUL LEVINSON

This goes back to ancient Greek drama. This has always been the role of fiction and entertainment to...
PAUL LEVINSON

She will certainly bring a fresh face to the program. But a woman serving as sole anchor on an eveni...
PAUL LEVINSON

'The Fox Report' is the youngest, most exciting presentation of news that we now have on television....
PAUL LEVINSON

I think there will be a more serious, thoughtful treatment of September 11 [in the future].
PAUL LEVINSON

It used to be catch as catch can, ... But now with the Internet, we're in an environment where all t...
PAUL LEVINSON

What he did down in New Orleans was really an extraordinary accomplishment, which goes way beyond wh...
PAUL LEVINSON

If any good comes from the catastrophe, it will be that it signaled the beginning of the media's rea...
PAUL LEVINSON

You expressed concern regarding mismanagement of Lake Grove Facilities, putting residents at risk, a...
DANIEL LEVINSON

We were, overall, pretty pleased with what we saw. The proof will be if in one or two year's time, w...
JOSH LEVINSON

Forty percent of new AIDS cases can be traced back to a dirty needle.
JOSH LEVINSON

Who would have thought 25 years into the epidemic, one of the biggest problems would be that we don'...
JOSH LEVINSON

You have to be looking at substance abuse; you have to be looking at mental health issues; you have ...
JOSH LEVINSON

His big insight was that the customer doesn't care how you're shipping the goods. The customer wants...
MARC LEVINSON

This office is tremendously concerned about the possible abuse and neglect of hospital patients and ...
DANIEL LEVINSON

I don't think the First Amendment entitles journalists to take advantage of illegal activities.
PAUL LEVINSON

With HIV, it can't be done quietly. You have to be loud, you have to be vocal, because at the end of...
JOSH LEVINSON

When the story broke, she, again, chose to support Frey. Loyalty is important, but she should have l...
PAUL LEVINSON

There was no language that required or forced mergers in those counties, but clearly if funding were...
ADAM LEVINSON

The Sept. 11 period really was an aberration - hurricane Katrina has reawakened the sleeping giant, ...
PAUL LEVINSON

The only thing I can say is that it's unjustifiable and inconceivable to think that fairness is achi...
SETH LEVINSON

It was probably bothering her, ... She was aggravated about what she feels is not a completely accur...
PAUL LEVINSON

Those who had no wish to go international, who sought only to serve their local clientele, learned t...
MARC LEVINSON

Before the container, transporting goods was expensive. So expensive that it did not pay to ship man...
MARC LEVINSON

The administration is taking a different strategy because it got a lot of flak last year for trying ...
ELLEN LEVINSON

The upshot is that US AID is making plans to eliminate about 17 countries out of 32 for the food aid...
ELLEN LEVINSON

To fund the program adequately, $2 billion is needed, so a targeted program for vulnerable populatio...
ELLEN LEVINSON

We share your concerns,
DANIEL LEVINSON

If significant noncompliance with the standards is found, it may be necessary to perform additional ...
DANIEL LEVINSON

I think this has been a big deal for Houston. It really helped make the port there a major league po...
MARC LEVINSON

A lot of the policy discussion seems to assume that once this bill is passed, some of the undocument...
MARC LEVINSON

By far the biggest expense in this process was shifting the cargo from land transport to ship at the...
MARC LEVINSON

They were trying to get at the root causes of poverty, and the root causes were, as we felt it to be...
LARRY LEVINSON

The governor's numbers are moving in the right direction. One thing is certain, that voters will hav...
KATIE LEVINSON

It is clear from this instance this is a calculated campaign strategy.
KATIE LEVINSON

We are confident we will have all of the resources necessary to effectively communicate the governor...
KATIE LEVINSON

This isn't a demand. It's simply a respectful request to satisfy his desire to be closer to home.
SETH LEVINSON

A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shru...
LEONARD L. LEVINSON

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.
LEONARD LOUIS LEVINSON

Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.
LEONARD L. LEVINSON

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
LEONARD LOUIS LEVINSON

He's a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.
LEONARD LOUIS LEVINSON

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shr...
LEONARD LOUIS LEVINSON

At the celebration at the Shiite shrine, a cleric gave a scathing speech in the mosque's courtyard. ...
CORRESPONDENT CHARLES LEVINSON

Investors have been very patient with the biotech industry, which has been one of the biggest money-...
ARTHUR D. LEVINSON

With the potential to launch as many as six new products or new indications for existing products in...
ARTHUR D. LEVINSON

Our solid first-quarter performance is in line with our expectations for the quarter and demonstrate...
ARTHUR D. LEVINSON

Our performance continues to be driven by robust sales of our innovative oncology products which hav...
ARTHUR D. LEVINSON

This is an old issue and one on which we took corrective action back in 1994.
ARTHUR D. LEVINSON

I wish I'd known you when you were alive
LEONARD LOUIS LEVINSON

Book - what they make a movie out of for television.
LEONARD L. LEVINSON

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.
LEONARD L. LEVINSON

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
LEONARD L. LEVINSON

It seems he never bothered to put it back after the most recent explosion. He says the windows will ...
CORRESPONDENT CHARLES LEVINSON

But since then, I have stumbled across a number of other people with very similar stories, people wh...
CORRESPONDENT CHARLES LEVINSON

It's a sort of grim realization that they are raking in profits from the misfortune of others. They ...
CORRESPONDENT CHARLES LEVINSON

Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.
LEONARD L. LEVINSON

This is the pain that will inform all other pains from now on. You have lost your mother. That is th...
DAVID SAMUEL LEVINSON

Fame: putting someone on a pedestal so you can see his clay feet
LEONARD LOUIS LEVINSON

Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the d...
BARRY JENKINS

No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces tha...
BARRY WHITE

Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend ...
BARRY RITHOLTZ

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain...
BARRY COMMONER

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social i...
BARRY COMMONER

I am about as detailed as a shadow.
LYNDA BARRY

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
DAVE BARRY

I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
SAM BARRY

Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad wor...
SAM BARRY

I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.
SAM BARRY

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.
TODD BARRY

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the a...
BARRY UNSWORTH

Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hi...
KEVIN BARRY

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admi...
DAVE BARRY

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
DAVE BARRY

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another pe...
DAVE BARRY

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
DAVE BARRY

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is ...
DAVE BARRY

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will ...
DAVE BARRY

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to a...
DAVE BARRY

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
DAVE BARRY

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another perso...
DAVE BARRY

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
DAVE BARRY

I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me.
LYNDA BARRY

I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, ...
BARRY JENKINS

I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. ...
BARRY ZITO

I can count my friends on one hand.
BARRY ZITO

I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anythin...
BARRY ZITO

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
BARRY ZITO

The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
BARRY ZITO

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them ...
BARRY ZITO

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.
BARRY ZITO

I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people...
BARRY ZITO

I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
BARRY ZITO

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.
BARRY ZITO

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no ...
BARRY ZITO

Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he ...
BARRY ZITO

I just write mechanical things.
BARRY ZITO

I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
BARRY ZITO

Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If i...
BARRY ZITO

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, ...
BARRY ZITO

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works...
BARRY ZITO

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can be...
BARRY ZITO

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. ...
BARRY ZITO

I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the score...
BARRY WILLIAMS

Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
BARRY WILLIAMS

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
BARRY WHITE

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as ...
BARRY WHITE

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
BARRY WHITE

The whole system of society tells you what to do.
BARRY WHITE

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my...
BARRY WHITE

People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
BARRY WHITE

I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me...
BARRY WHITE

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I...
BARRY WHITE

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beg...
BARRY WHITE

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Tho...
BARRY WHITE

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my ha...
BARRY WHITE

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was...
BARRY WHITE

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every wor...
BARRY WHITE

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
BARRY WHITE

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
BARRY WHITE

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
BARRY WHITE

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 19...
BARRY WHITE

I try to tell a story musically in a song.
BARRY WHITE

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
BARRY WHITE

Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
BARRY WHITE

In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
BARRY WATSON

I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with bei...
BARRY WATSON

I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man ...
BARRY WATSON

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.
BARRY WATSON

Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about ever...
BARRY WATSON

I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. ...
BARRY WATSON

I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get insi...
BARRY WATSON

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
BARRY TOOK

It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at ...
BARRY TOOK

There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just ...
BARRY TOOK

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
BARRY SWITZER

I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.
BARRY STERNLICHT

I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort l...
BARRY STERNLICHT

There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.
BARRY STERNLICHT

There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans ...
BARRY STERNLICHT

If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.
BARRY STERNLICHT

If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to ...
BARRY STERNLICHT

You go public because you want access to capital in the form of debt and equity.
BARRY STERNLICHT

I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.
BARRY STERNLICHT

We have an impact on nature, and nature has an impact on us.
BARRY STERNLICHT

You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company tha...
BARRY STERNLICHT

Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportuniti...
BARRY STERNLICHT

I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attenti...
BARRY STERNLICHT

Booking windows are shrinking, and customers are going mobile: trends which position HotelTonight pe...
BARRY STERNLICHT

Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
BARRY STERNLICHT

I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hote...
BARRY STERNLICHT

The American dream is still to own your home.
BARRY STERNLICHT

I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of differe...
BARRY STERNLICHT

It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.
BARRY STERNLICHT

Today, when you're marketing a brand, you can't try to appeal to everybody. You should speak...
BARRY STERNLICHT

The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did som...
BARRY STERNLICHT

It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionat...
BARRY STERNLICHT

As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
BARRY STERNLICHT

I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.

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I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.

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