W. L. George Quotes

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

I love it in a movie when they throw a guy off a cliff. I love it even when it's not a movie. No, especially when it's not a movie.

The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.

I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. [And] I want to be known for what I do best.

My mother and I had a lot of distance between us emotionally, although, on the surface, most of the time, we appeared good and friendly, and all that. But I was a problem. I was a street kid.

Sometimes, when I was really loaded, I'd sit on the floor and sort out every nut and bolt in the house. It was just sheer insanity. And often there'd be speed in the cut, so I was a speed freak, too.

There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.

I think it would be fair and right to use some of my land and wealth for a drug-rehab center or an Indian school.

You know, if a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough. Acid and peyote were that way for me.

The secretiveness. The stealth. Those were obviously the aspects of cocaine use I was addicted to.

When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning.

The base of evil in the world is religion of any kind

Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.

Do you remember Barbara Bush? I call her the silver douchebag.

Fate's such a shrewish thing.

I think you reach your full potential by fighting often enough against varied types of opponents. This makes you a complete fighter.

So many things we do as young people are things we have to live with as older people.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must not walk in fear of one another. We must not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.

I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.

The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.

I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It's an older country, and they've learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it.

I didn't have time. I was too busy breaking up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage. (on rumours he was responsible for Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt's break-up)

Even other movies I wasn't involved with, I'd watch them edit 'cause I really enjoy watching them go through their process. It's a very economical, educational process.

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it.

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart.

Circles in water as they wider flow The less conspicuous in their progress grow, And when at last they trench upon the shore, Distinction ceases and they're view'd no more.

Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.

Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.

Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die and leave us to our griefs as prey!

He tried the luxury of doing good.

Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.

Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Give me, instead of beauty's bust, A tender heart, a loyal mind, Which with temptation I could trust, Yet never linked with error find.

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.

I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

When I think about my new CD, the word 'joy' comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.

I work so hard for the fans who watch our show.

I love what I do and I love the fans.

Appearances have very little to do with happiness.

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.