David Quotes

The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the Eurozone.

Since 2004, Britain has been the destination for 1 in 5 of all inward investments into Europe. And being part of the Single Market has been key to that success.

It is nonsense that people shopping online in some parts of Europe are unable to access the best deals because of where they live. I want completing the single market to be our driving mission.

Mind you, I would not want the pressure of being number one in the world just two years before a World Cup. There is only one way to go and it is not up.

Being proud of something is a very tricky word and I sometimes think it has a bad connotation. I don't feel proud, I feel grateful. I'm lucky.

There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.'

I was enough of an acrobat and a gymnast and a dancer and everything else so that I could handle the kung fu, because it's just choreography.

Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.

To me there's a difference between success and satisfaction. A lot of people have success and no satisfaction. I'm after satisfaction. I

For me the most important thing is to continue to work with the best people that I can find, and that will have me.

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.

Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here.

It really comes down to the fact that, because I was perceived as a bad guy for leaving the show, I think people were rooting against the movies. That was really unfortunate.

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

I'm not a movie-based person, in terms of how it affects my career, the industry. I don't care about that. I probably haven't been too smart about that.

I've collected Andy Warhol art for years now I have two portraits of myself done by Steve Kaufman.

In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.

Chefs who cook in these ivory towers are in control in their own world. We try to approximate that world as best we can, but ultimately our goal is to please our clients.

Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.

I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.

I think it's a lot easier to put together a reality show than to actually create a scripted show.

I'm just constantly trying to be a good dad.

It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.

The Sopranos was the first show about the life of the writer. I never made any secret about the fact that it was about my mother.

I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended

I think people are intolerant of artists.

Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.

Cancer don't respect nothing.

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.

I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.

The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.

People get so tired of the '60s.

I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.

Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else.

The most difficult challenge that Governments have faced since the dinosaurs roamed the earth.

These people who build houses with 13 bathrooms and so on, there's something wrong with them.

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story.