John Quotes

I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.

I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.

I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.

You have to remember everything you've created. But then comes a moment when it's all automatic pilot, where it all comes together and you don't have to think about it any more.

The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade and independence.

I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing

The nice thing about Toronto is there's not a competition.

My sensitivity level is high, but I think that's one of my assets as an actor.

Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.

When you're directing, it is a little easier, because when you're the actor, you have a to be a little more of a child. You have to get into the child's aspect of your personality a little bit more.

I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do

A lot of those people aren't their best salesmen. They're the opposite of a salesperson and I think there's something attractive about that.

It's nice to work with people who know and trust you.

Management that wants to change an institution must first show that it loves that institution.

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

Our lives fade behind us before we die.

Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.

Fraud makes the world go round.

What we need is progress with an escape hatch.

The great thing about the dead, they make space.

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.

How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?

Being on TV is like being alive, only more so.

The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.

Love makes the air light.

We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.

Cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.

Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God.

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

One of the nice things about having a lover, it makes you think about everything anew. The rest of your life becomes a kind of movie, flat and even rather funny.

You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure.

I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.

I'm always looking for insights into the real Doris Day because I'm stuck with this infatuation and need to explain it to myself.

Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.

It’s spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from God.

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.

Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade.

...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.

A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.

How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.