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1625 Film director Quotes

I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

About Audience Energy Feed
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

Committed Couple Doing First
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!

Gets Headline Man Married
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I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.

Albeit Decent Done Inadvertently
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I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

Being Comedian Great Interested
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I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

First Fish Learned Night
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I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.

Cab Drove Had Job
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Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

About Actually Around Casual
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'

Come Go House Know
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

Being Cross Dealing Get
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I'm not quite as anonymous as I was.

Anonymous Was As Quite
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I can't stand reading anything that I've said.

Anything Reading Said Stand
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
After Divorce Home Lights
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If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

About Could Course Going
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

American Food Hot Like
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I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'

Am Any Anyone Been
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I have reservations about everything I do.

About Have Everything Reservations
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Old age is the only disease you don't want to be cured of.

Old age Disease Cured of
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The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.

Trouble Movie Released Accident
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I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

Regard Career Precious Convictions
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I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

Think Word Explain Life
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I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.

Pray Want Bore God
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I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with.

Never make Mind up Over Done with
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The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.

Truth Man Calculated Sum
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My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!

Definition Success Thrown at
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I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.

Sincere towards Experimenting Fills Enthusiasm
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I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.

Love Moving Town Spirit rising
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Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

Serious stories World Failure Death
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By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
By nature Experimentalist Believe
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.

Movie Production Greatest train
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

Believe Learning Peoples pictures
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

Human nature Eternal Follows Keeps
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It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... walks out
Worth it Money Walks out
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

Hate women Abstract way Never learns
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

Opinion Two things Realistic Sexual act
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There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Intolerable things Life Cold coffee Lukewarm champagne
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

Ignorance sheer Confidence Something about Profession
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I’m a disciplinarian, I don’t condone gossip and I don’t suffer fools easily

Disciplinarian Condone Gossip Fools
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If you think badly of people, bad things happen to you.
Think Badly Bad things Happen
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I like to learn, I’m open to sensible criticism, and I have a lot of respect for people with principles

Learn Sensible Criticism Respect
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Opinions are like noses, we are all entitled to one.

Opinions Noses Like Entitled
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Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.

About Beautiful BeautifulWomen Cast
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I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

Any Family Know Life
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We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

About Always Attention Everyone
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The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

About Actor Age Appropriate
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Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.

Alike Always Father Fell
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Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.

About Experience Know Me
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Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.
Census Effective EffectiveWay Getting
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I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon.

Married Nine Sober Soon
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I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Back Crisis Days Doing
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