Sam Quotes
I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
I'd love to have more children. If I'm still clear after five years, I'll think again.
I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.
My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.
I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.
I think people have some control over what they want; there's a relationship - maybe not automatic - between what you want and get.
The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.
If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
Each job you have has it's own challenges. One of the great things about my job, is that each film is a different journey.
I want a movie to be satisfying for an audience. That sense of having to get it done, no matter what cost, is what I like.
Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it?
You get to go and play with the big boys, it's a very privileged thing for us to do. So I'm sure we have more ideas than what I actually have time for.
The high mountains are barren, but the low valleys are covered over with corn; and accordingly the showers of God's grace fall into lowly hearts and humble souls.
I don't mind being in studios, and I don't mind being out in nature. They're two different ways of making movies.
I think any actor who talks in beatings-up is just talking himself up. I tend to not bring them up.
Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it s amazing what they can accomplish.
If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
When we stop fighting against death, we are able to wake up to our lives.
Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive thought, is the primary source of human suffering.
Emotions are the road signs to your happiness.
Social media allows us to subjugate feelings and problems we don't want to confront, like emotional eating or substance abuse, thus perpetuating our problems and delaying our happiness.
You're a virgin. You have no idea what you're asking for.""Then you will have to teach me.""Not like this. Not on a horse in the middle of nowhere.
