Be Good Quotes

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.

That was a good fight back in the gym,” he said. “But I think you could benefit from a few more boxing lessons.

She shrieked. "Nora! What happened to the banister!" Good thing she hadn't seen her bedroom yet.

I don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.

If you're going to lie, at least be good at it.

I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.

... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.

It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really really really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

A good king is a public servant.

Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them

I think I'm a very good driver. Apparently, the cause of road rage - as with most anger - is some kind of superiority complex, which, god knows, cars foster.

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider.

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.

A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.

Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.

A good man's life is all of a piece.

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.

It'd be good for the world if [Donald Trump] won.

You can't compare eras. But drivers of each era adapt to the needs and climate of their time. There are good and bad points to every era of the sport. I'm not really nostalgic about the past.

It is not good enough to say, "Well, hey, I vote every two years. I vote every four years." That's fine, but that is not good enough.

Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.

I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and then I knew it was true.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.

It's very strange that people would consider me a fashion muse but it's also flattering. I try to just be myself, and wear what's comfortable and makes me feel good.

I think that if you don't enjoy doing something you are not going to be good at it.

And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be.

I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

I'm blessed with good health for which I'm deeply grateful, so for that reason, I feel so good. Everybody else is far more excited about the 90 than I am.

I go to my studio every day. Some days work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the nonproductive ones.

It's all about attitude and feeling good about yourself and not looking like everybody on TV. You do not have to be small; you can have some junk in your trunk.