American Producer Quotes

Reese Witherspoon

Sandra Bullock

Julia Roberts

Harrison Ford

Ice Cube

Dr. Dre

Harold Lloyd

Catch a falling star an' put it in your pocket,
Never let it fade away!
Catch a falling star an' put it in your pocket,
Save it for a rainy day!
For love may come an' tap you on the shoulder,
Some starless night!

Please can we have no more complaints about the pauses in Tony Blair's speeches. They are the best parts.

Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.

Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.

Love is found when you don't have to give it. It is the emotion of generosity and kindness that is compelled by no one. It is performed on the battlefield, in our daily tasks, in the marketplace, the factories, at school, in the offices, and in the halls and corridors of government.... But only when one truly gives of himself and without compulsion.

You came here with nothing, and your leaving' with nothing. So retreat from this world of deceitfulness.

Success is a man who has the love and trust of a woman, a job he likes, and an abiding sense of humor. Success is a man whose children love him and have made him proud of them. Success is a man who dies at home in his sleep after a good life.

Through it all, I have remained consistently and nauseatingly adorable. In fact, I have been known to cause diabetes.

I promote peace and positivity.
I'm throwed off slightly bro, don't wanna fight me bro I'm fast as lightnin' bro, ya better use your nikes bro

We live in a changing world: man is whispering through space, soaring to the stars in ships, flinging miles of steel and glass into the air. Shall the theater continue to huddle in the confines of a painted box set? The movies, in their kaleidoscopic speed and juxtaposition of external objects and internal emotions are seeking to find visible and audible expression for the tempo and psychology of our time. The stage too must experiment— with ideas, with psychological relationships of men and women, with speech and rhythm forms, with dance and movement, with color and light—or it must and should become a museum product.

Hallie Flanagan

You can't go on like you're going to start really living one day like all this is some preamble to some great life thats magically going to appear. I'm a firm believer that you have to create your own miracles, don't hold out that there's something better waiting on the other side. It doesn't work that way. When you're gone, you're gone. Don't wait.

When you've been living in the sunshine all your life, you don't want to move into the shade.

I said a hip hop
the hibbie, the hibbie
to the hip hip hop, you don't stop the rockin
To the bang bang boogie, say up jumped the boogie
To the rhythm of the boogedy beat.

Sylvia Robinson

This is the way to hear music, I think, surrounded by rolling hills and farmlands, under a big sky.

Michael Lang (producer)

Loosen the bonds of discursive thought. Extend the circle of caring. Cease armoring against suffering. Wish for others the same happiness you wish for yourself. Be a tender-minded steward of creation.

Marc Ian Barasch

I love competition.
I'd rather have to fight and worry than be peaceful and secure, any day.
I've found that I'm a peaceful, easy-going sort of a fellow about all the small things in life. But when a big issue comes along and when I feel I'm right about it—well, I guess I'm pretty stubborn. Even nasty.
I've taken up golf. I'm crazy about it. Doug Fairbanks and I play every day that we can get away from work. I not only like the game a lot, but I want to master it. I'm not satisfied just to play golf. I want to be good at it. That's the way I've come to feel about everything.

The immense, overpowering blackness is relieved here and there by a faint point of light — which, upon closer approach, is revealed to be a mighty sun, blazing with thermonuclear fire and warming a small surrounding volume of space.

You spend months and months listening to the music, absorbing, practicing, working with real musicians who worked with them and getting as much of that as you can. And then the day you start shooting, you have to throw it all away. Because, they had no self-consciousness. They were natural performers and at that time, it wasn't about how you could synthesize a voice and make it appealing, it was about the natural little hiccups and the way you related a story or wrote the soul in the words you wrote. And 90% of your popularity was your performance and your interpretation of your own song. So, once we learned it all you just have to just kind of hope it all sunk in somewhere and just let it all go, cause they just had incredible confidence.

Reese Witherspoon

Making the movie Babe opened my eyes to the intelligence and the inquisitive personalities of pigs. These highly social animals possess an amazing capacity for love, joy and sorrow that makes them remarkably similar to our beloved canine and feline friends.

Once the trust goes out of a relationship it's really no fun lying to them anymore.

Glen and Les Charles

That's what imagination is for: to go in advance so action can follow.

Kenneth Atchity

All I got is genes and chromosomes
Consider me Black to the bone
All I want is peace and love
On this planet.
(Ain't that how God planned it?)

Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.

[As a vegan] I feel better, I look better, so it's a big change for me. You have more clarity and I think that all of us want to be more clear. I wanted to look younger and feel better and wanted to be a greater contributor to the good on the planet […] The more I learned about factory farming… the more I realized that I could not, in good conscience, be a contributor to such violence.

Russell Simmons

Moonlighting was funny, innovative, genre-busting chaos. Also, apparently, unsustainable. Sigh.