Alan Quotes

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry

I was never trained for anything

When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.

If I had my way, I'd do all my entertaining on the front steps

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

Good design is serious business.

Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.

Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office

I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.

Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

Fresno is an All America city and deserves real, honest, strong leadership and I pledge to the people of Fresno to be that kind of leader.

It doesn't matter is you call it 'Obama-care' or 'Elvis Presley care' or 'I-don't-care care.' It cannot sustain itself in its present form.

As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.

On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher.

Know what you value, be willing to take a risk, and lead from the heart - lead from what you believe in.

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

Big guys like you and me aren't allowed to whine.

Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.

If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged just so.

If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it.

The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

I've never tried to manipulate my image.