You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?
~By Walter Murch ~
No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.
~By Dick Van Dyke ~
Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend.
~By Shelley Duvall ~
Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.
~By William Petersen ~
It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.
~By Gloria Stuart ~
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
~By Thom Gunn ~
I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
~By Gavin Bryars ~
The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.
~By Jesse Helms ~
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
~By Mark Twain ~
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
We're all with Friends until Friends dies. If one of us goes, we all go. One of us wouldn't leave. It wouldn't be the show it is without each of us.
~By Jennifer Aniston ~
My part had three lines. I said, 'You look wonderful, sir,' three times. All my friends said, 'Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life.' I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.
~By Jeffrey Tambor ~
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
~By Thomas Malthus ~
I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
~By Paris Hilton ~
I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~
Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
~By Patrick Macnee ~
I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.
~By Adam Sandler ~
Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
~By Emil Zatopek ~
From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.
~By Louise Fletcher ~
When we meet, I'm interested and I'm curious about what he's doing because he's burning a number from a client. And I'm like, 'Who is this?' and my girlfriend's like, 'That's a drug dealer. Stay away from him.'
~By Rosario Dawson ~
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song.
~By Joel Hodgson ~
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
~By Martin Luther ~
I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat.
~By Bess Truman ~
I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.
~By Olivier Martinez ~
I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent.
~By Nellie Bly ~
Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way.
~By Niklas Zennstrom ~
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
~By Paula Abdul ~
I like girls who don't mind that I hang out with my friends.
~By Michael Rosenbaum ~
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
~By Nicholas Breton ~
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
~By Ernst Mayr ~
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
~By Fawn M. Brodie ~
I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.
~By Melissa Leo ~
We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
~By Tacitus ~
Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
~By Axl Rose ~
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.
~By Mario Batali ~
I asked my friend Greg Andersson to introduce me to people that can distribute my album.
~By Joshua Homme ~
There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
~By Salma Hayek ~
I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.
~By Faith Ford ~
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years.
~By John Jay Hooker ~
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which we did. After he heard the songs, he said that he knew someone in the record business by the name of Bob Shad.
~By Phil Harris ~
I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
~By Rita Rudner ~
And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
~By Beau Bridges ~
There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
~By Verne Troyer ~
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
~By William Shenstone ~
I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.
~By Colin Firth ~
At least I make decisions based on what I think is right, not who my friends might be.
~By Dick Murphy ~
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
~By Thomas Chandler Haliburton ~
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
~By Victor Hugo ~
You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
~By Marsilio Ficino ~
Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
~By Christopher Marlowe ~
Sex does not exist for me at all. I haven't had a boyfriend for a long time. There were only three or four in my life up until now anyway.
~By Kim Wilde ~
So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.
~By Pope Benedict XVI ~
Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer.
~By Olivier Martinez ~
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
~By Barry Goldwater ~
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
~By Robert Lynd ~
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
~By Joseph Roux ~
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
~By Charles Dickens ~
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
~By Charles Kingsley ~
Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.
~By Sydney Schanberg ~
I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.
~By Fred Frith ~
I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.
~By John Frusciante ~
I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.
~By Robert Englund ~
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
~By Homer ~
Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
~By Earl Butz ~
To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.
~By William Dunbar ~
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
~By William Hazlitt ~
I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.
~By Trish Stratus ~
When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
~By Ramakrishna ~
So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
~By Charlie Kaufman ~
I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.
~By Georg Solti ~
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
~By Maya Angelou ~
Well, I had said to my friends, it's going to be good, but I bet it's going to be cheesy in a way. And I didn't think that at all. It's so good and was just so funny.
~By Brittany Snow ~
Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
~By Elsa Maxwell ~
I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.
~By Spike Milligan ~
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
~By Francis Bacon ~
It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on.
~By Robert Creeley ~
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
~By Confucius ~
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
~By Stephen King ~
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
~By William Glasser ~
I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.
~By Jodie Foster ~
It's a tough time my friends. We need to make sacrifices to ensure our troops have the tools they need in order to get the job done. This budget will help us win the War on Terror.
~By Dennis Hastert ~
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