There are some who believe we are going to have an electronic Pearl Harbor, so to speak, before we r...
SAM NUNN I'm told by the law enforcement officials that they expect probably 20 bomb threats a day. Hopefully...
SAM NUNN reduce the pressure on the nuclear trigger.
SAM NUNN We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.
SAM NUNN This is part of prudent efforts to protect our interests in the Gulf,
SAM NUNN a production line of nuclear weapons ... will not be permitted.
SAM NUNN Never underestimate the value of cold cash.
GREGORY NUNN there is no such thing as a harmless truth.
GREGORY NUNN It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
GREGORY NUNN A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
GREGORY NUNN The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
GREGORY NUNN All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
GREGORY NUNN If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who sho...
GREGORY NUNN A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.
GREGORY NUNN Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.
GREGORY NUNN Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,
GREGORY NUNN The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It sa...
GREGORY NUNN All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
GREGORY NUNN The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, becau...
TREVOR NUNN If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-co...
TREVOR NUNN If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your f...
GREGORY NUNN If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your f...
GREGORY NUNN One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.
TREVOR NUNN I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagi...
TREVOR NUNN In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do s...
TREVOR NUNN I think part of Kevin's notion of being involved with the Old Vic was because he wants to blood hims...
TREVOR NUNN Occasionally, when honesty was the best policy, he was honest
GREGORY NUNN The first step to wisdom is to avoid the common fallacy which considers everything profound that is ...
GREGORY NUNN The right man, in the right place, at the right time - can steal millions
GREGORY NUNN In union suits there is length
GREGORY NUNN A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon
GREGORY NUNN The best way to lose weight is to develop an orthodox belief in some religion that doesn't allow any...
GREGORY NUNN The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It sa...
GREGORY NUNN I'm in touch with my grandma, she's in Indiana, my uncle, he went back to New Orleans and I got a co...
ELAINE NUNN To a warden, Utopia is an escape-proof jail
GREGORY NUNN If you want to be an actor, you should just get out there and do it. I don't go for the approach...
BILL NUNN I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do...
TREVOR NUNN Not only will they bring something of their own, but also some of their teammates' stuff.
DRAKE NUNN I asked coach to start the foundation as a living memorial to Sydney and he said yes.
DRAKE NUNN We've got wonderful people behind it, wonderful name recognition. We'll not try to fly before we wal...
DRAKE NUNN It speaks volumes of their character. When I called, it would have been easy for them to write a che...
DRAKE NUNN That was my roots, I was uprooted and came here.
ELAINE NUNN So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a p...
TREVOR NUNN I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, bu...
KEM NUNN The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged profession...
TREVOR NUNN When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make ...
TREVOR NUNN United Nations: Where America feeds the hands that bite it
GREGORY NUNN Politics: The highest calling to the lowest falling
GREGORY NUNN Expert: Someone who brings confusion to simplicity
GREGORY NUNN 'School Daze' was one of the highlights of my life because it was the first chance I had to ...
BILL NUNN Fortunately, I never had to do the waiter thing. When I got out of college, I immediately started to...
BILL NUNN Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My care...
BILL NUNN It makes it a little bit more fair for the clubs who have fewer members than others.
JANICE NUNN Don't skip your meals and drink plenty of fluids.
JANICE NUNN It's [bloodmobile] mainly a walk-in blood drive. Whoever wants to give blood that day can give blood...
JANICE NUNN A lifetime of yearning unwound before him like some lost and endless highway.
KEM NUNN If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who ...
TREVOR NUNN I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or ...
TREVOR NUNN I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.
TREVOR NUNN I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between th...
TREVOR NUNN I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.
TREVOR NUNN I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary t...
TREVOR NUNN If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about tha...
TREVOR NUNN I love to watch Droughns run. He sees the hole and goes through it so naturally. If you get him just...
ROBERT NUNN 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 I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
SAM KINISON It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
SAM KINISON Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
SAM KINISON If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
SAM KINISON I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
SAM KINISON AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
SAM KINISON Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
SAM KINISON Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.
SAM KINISON I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
SAM KINISON In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up....
SAM KINISON Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water sl...
SAM KINISON Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
SAM KINISON Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attit...
SAM KINISON I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn&...
SAM KINISON My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
SAM KINISON You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's no...
SAM KINISON You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
SAM KEEN