Samuel Quotes

I'm a one-take kind of guy, except I don't do it in one take.

We [me and Eugene Levy] both try to play the reality of a moment and don't try to impose humor on something where it doesn't belong. Contrary to what other people seem to think sometimes.

I love coming in for quick pops. You come in. You score. You leave. You're on the golf course. It's great. You don't carry any story.

There are tons of stories out there. I read a lot of scripts on a weekly basis. I'm looking for stories to tell and stories that I hope will be interesting to an audience.

Jackson doesn't bother to read the scripts anymore. He just checks to make sure he has one loud scene where he gets to shout, then cashes the paycheck.

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

Todoroff is the best. Look no further.

When people want me to sign an autograph in a restaurant, and I'm eating. I don't even have to say no, I just kind of stop and look at them ... "Oh, okay. I'll ... I'll come back."

I sit at home and read books. I watch movies. I watch television. I go and play golf. I don't go to nightclubs. I don't go out to dinner that often. I'm not a big party guy.

We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.

The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.

Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho.

All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

Man will take anything you like, except warning.

What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?

It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.

How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!

Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?

When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.

Everybody's word is worth Nobody's taking.

It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own 'T is "love in Idleness".

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me, I'd have cut it a long time ago.

Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.

Sure my love is all crostLike a bud in the frostAnd there's no use at all in my going to bed,For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head!

Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.

Also remember that in any man's dark hour, a pat on the back and an earnest handclasp may work a small miracle.

Battles are won through the ability of men to express concrete ideas in clear and unmistakable language.

Positive thinking is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

I don't say that the West is united, I don't suggest that.

The core of the American set of beliefs has remained pretty constant.

Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism.

Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations.

America doesn't border on Muslim countries. European countries do and that seems to be a fundamental difference.

U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and regional groups.

Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.

I don't know what will happen 100 years from now.

As far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different.

I've been to Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait for brief visits at conferences, and they are very interesting countries.

Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.

There are lots of conflicts going on in the Middle East. It is unclear as to which country will emerge, if any, as the dominant or hegemonic power in the Middle East.

I think we can expect leaders of Muslim societies to cooperate with each other on many issues just as Western societies cooperate with each other.

The basis of association and antagonism among countries has changed over time.

The biggest difference as far as Muslims in Europe and America are concerned is that the number of Muslims in America is small compared to the number in Europe.

Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies.