Matthew Broderick quote: "When I was little I used to see Godzilla all the time on TV, ... I just remember him knocking things over, which was fine with me. I loved monster movies and disaster movies, and this was a good combination."

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
MATTHEW BRODERICK

Regardless, I'm going to have a lot if lizard-ware when this is all through.
MATTHEW BRODERICK

Is it, like, throbbing?
MATTHEW BRODERICK

That will come. And if it's going to happen, it'll be this week.
MATTHEW BRODERICK

one more minute and then a tank is going to roll on with a Nazi in it.
MATTHEW BRODERICK

I wish we were out of town, so we could work on these things quietly,
MATTHEW BRODERICK

I think there is some stigma when you're playing a love scene... with somebody who you don't really ...
MATTHEW BRODERICK

I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But...
MATTHEW BRODERICK

You never know. They may figure something out. I know they want you.
MATTHEW BRODERICK

Please remember to curb your dogs when you are walking in this area.
MATTHEW BRODERICK

Mr. Brown should have picked up the phone and called the secretary right away.
MATTHEW BRODERICK

I loved 'Independence Day' and I've liked disaster movies since I was a kid. And to do one with thos...
MATTHEW BRODERICK

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can...
MATTHEW BRODERICK

I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toile...
MATTHEW BRODERICK

You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.
MATTHEW BRODERICK

I never feel confident in anything.
MATTHEW BRODERICK

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

I like having my autonomy; I like going into the vegetable aisle with little fanfare. Very few go in...
BETH BRODERICK

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

I've made my peace with myself.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

I'm a lousy reader.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

I was always the second heavy.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.
BETH BRODERICK

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

Bill Clinton was relentless, eloquent and truly charming.
BETH BRODERICK

You get disappointed about what happened, but ultimately we came to play. What happened is over with...
BRODERICK BUNKLEY

He gets stronger as the game goes on. We're going to have to key on him pretty good and key on their...
BRODERICK BUNKLEY

Central Arkansas' campus was the best I had seen. It was a nice atmosphere, and I get a shot at play...
BRODERICK FRANKLIN

Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, ...
BETH BRODERICK

Michael Booker has helped me out a lot, and I hope that in a way I have helped him too. We've looked...
BRODERICK FRANKLIN

It's that heart of gold, and stardust shine that makes you beautiful.
R.M. BRODERICK

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.
BETH BRODERICK

There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied d...
BETH BRODERICK

I cannot imagine a worse job than being president of these Untied States in these most trying of tim...
BETH BRODERICK

I'm a light comedienne; that's really where I live the most often.
BETH BRODERICK

The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be hig...
BETH BRODERICK

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.
BETH BRODERICK

I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and sa...
BETH BRODERICK

I think it's very important to support the program in your area, as each part of the country has...
BETH BRODERICK

This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watc...
BETH BRODERICK

There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.
BETH BRODERICK

Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of ...
BETH BRODERICK

I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

So don't applaud. Just send me the check.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

I'm a lousy reader.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

I've made my peace with myself.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

If you're going to be a bum, be the biggest. If you're going to blow it, blow it big.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it...
BRODERICK CRAWFORD

I'm fearful of one incident.
MAUREEN BRODERICK

It's a shame the voters didn't see we did everything we could.
MAUREEN BRODERICK

We're going to have to look at some other ways to make it work. The voters have spoken loud.
MAUREEN BRODERICK

I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spo...
MATTHEW SWEET

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.
MATTHEW STEWART

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends....
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD

After a storm comes a calm.
MATTHEW HENRY

The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I ...
MATTHEW SETTLE

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative...
MATTHEW SCULLY

I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know w...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completel...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
MATTHEW QUICK

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
MATTHEW SHIPP

Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.
MATTHEW QUICK

I feel like I’m broken—like I don’t fit together anymore. Like there’s no more room for me i...
MATTHEW QUICK

Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they&...
MATTHEW DESMOND

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, '...
MATTHEW LILLARD

I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.
MATTHEW MORRISON

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.
MATTHEW MACFADYEN

I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly rememb...
MATTHEW RHYS

I've always lived by the ocean, and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and be...
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD

No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff,...
MATTHEW SETTLE

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine.
MATTHEW MCGRORY

A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these ...
MATTHEW DESMOND

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I&...
MATTHEW RHYS

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They'r...
MATTHEW LILLARD

Veal, by definition, is the product of a sick, anemic, deliberately malnourished calf, a newborn dra...
MATTHEW SCULLY

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted ...
MATTHEW MACFADYEN

We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them t...
MATTHEW STEWART

I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just wan...
MATTHEW RHYS

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on n...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.
MATTHEW ASHFORD

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles ...
MATTHEW QUICK

Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Liv...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din! But 'twas not love w...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale.
MATTHEW PRIOR

The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, ro...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
MATTHEW PRIOR

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to bless...
MATTHEW SIMPSON

For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
MATTHEW GREEN

Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives: She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives: Lay...
MATTHEW PRIOR

You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I kno...
MATTHEW QUICK

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...
MATTHEW LEWIS

We sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have -- Power.
MATTHEW BOULTON

There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teac...
MATTHEW DICKS

Dare to Differ
MATTHEW GOLDFINGER

Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And ...
MATTHEW SCULLY

Looking for and enjoying beauty is a way to nourish the soul. the universe is in the habit of making...
MATTHEW FOX

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
MATTHEW PRIOR

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR

They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
MATTHEW PRIOR

To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: S...
MATTHEW PRIOR

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the etern...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
MATTHEW PRIOR

One lesson we can learn from pre-industrial peoples is the power of storytelling. I am struck by how...
MATTHEW FOX

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
MATTHEW PRIOR

With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden a...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
MATTHEW PRIOR

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

'Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly sti...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The ends must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.
MATTHEW FOX

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLD

That she's the worst driver in the history of drivers. If I know she's going somewhere, I stay home....
MATTHEW PERRY

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
MATTHEW GREEN

Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Or to some coffee-house I stray,
For news, the manna of the day,
And from the hipp
MATTHEW GREEN

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privile...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just oursel...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather t...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain. She let the legions thunder pas...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

I never strove to rule the roast, She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, se...
MATTHEW FOX

At night astronomers agree.
MATTHEW PRIOR

I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair; And they, that lovely face...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie, Hush, ye wi...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

To err is human.
MATTHEW PRIOR

The end must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR

I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene? Brave...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a l...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born to die.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still, Out-top...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Hark! ah, the nightingale-- The tawny-throated! Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst! ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Six years--six little years--six drops of time.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden an...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Her cabin'd ample spirit, It fluttered and fail'd for breath; Tonight it doth inherit Th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in the world."
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prev...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life. - Matthew Prior,
MATTHEW PRIOR

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!) Be humble and ...
MATTHEW PRIOR

They talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: "Eternity, be thou ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his ...
MATTHEW HENRY

Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an...
MATTHEW DESMOND

I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in ...
MATTHEW DESMOND

The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam...
MATTHEW DESMOND

When I was little I used to see Godzilla all the time on TV, ... I just remember him knocking things over, which was fine with me. I loved monster movies and disaster movies, and this was a good combination.

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When I was little I used to see Godzilla all the time on TV, ... I just remember him knocking things over, which was fine with me. I loved monster movies and disaster movies, and this was a good combination.

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