E. G. Marshall Quotes

Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by misfits.

As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you're going to be doing it for two years.

Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.

The battlefield is cold... it is the lonesomest place which men share together.

Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself.

In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.

You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?

To those people (who criticize me), get off your a** and make a record.

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

I get by on wishful thinking that when you come home you'll want to stay.

You never know how things are going to go. I think you hope that people are going to dig what you do and that you're going to get the chance to do it on a really comfortable level.

I've had some interesting stuff happen to me - so why doesn't anyone ask me?

I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players.

What I'm finding out now is that people care more about a flag than about their fellow man. That's killing me.

I understand that you're supposed to protect a fellow officer, but when injustice is happening, it's on them to speak up as well.

If I wasn't playing football, I'd be a juvenile probation officer.

Maybe the standards should be higher to be an officer. People will say there area high standards, but clearly they're not high enough.

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Those Europeans, they know how to negotiate.

What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute.

In truth, most of us don't know our cats.

No cat purrs unless someone is around to listen.

Ideas rise with new mornings but never die.

Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now.

[Beaches] is a pretty picture and I just liked having somebody like Bette [Mudler] who can be flying in the big comedy scenes and have her do more like a realistic part.

That's why my ires always come comedic in a way because - can I just say something? See, I sound like such a smooth talker.

You do a little more of a record album these days. See I just wanted to put a few songs in Beaches and we did very well. The album of Beaches went gold.

He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.

I really wasn't too interested in writing "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie And Harriet." I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do.

I'm a little older and I'm gonna do a bunch more movies and then they're gonna put me in a home for old directors.

I think men should go see Beaches too. I think they'll understand women better.

For Joey Bishop, always was kind of the lost soul, so I did a traffic joke.

I think it holds up pretty good because more and more women are coming to the forefront in all areas, and back then they said that nobody would care about women's friendship.

I grew up with two sisters, no brothers. There was Ronny who produced "Happy Days" for me and my sister Penny who acts, directs - she does everything. So they were very strong women in my life.

I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on...

Time moves on but Barbara Hershey's doing good and John Heard, they're all people working. I know there were a couple of kids in that movie who I used who have been in other movies since Beaches.

In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film.

It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.

The instruments of war can be manufactured ... human blood cannot be; and the lack of just one pint could mean the life of an American serviceman.

I said bluntly that if the president were to follow Mr. Clifford's advice and if in the elections I were to vote, I would vote against the president.

My wife thinks I'm very hot. She tells me that every couple of weeks.

To anyone complaining about our schedule - call us. We'll put you on it.

Life's all about making choices. You've made the choice to pick up the pieces and keep going, even when you've been devastated over and over again.

If you love a person, you can forgive anything.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.

The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by safe and open means.

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens.

The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth.