Be Good Quotes

Hollywood is a deeply odd place. There are so many factors that have to go perfectly, so many schedules and visions that have to snap together for a film even to be made, much less be good.

In Africa, you have no clean water, but you have good food options. In Harlem, everyone can shower and get fresh water, but you often have bad food options.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live.

I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again.

I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.

My good intentions are completely lethal.

Debt is not just a money thing. It's about owing and being owed. Money is just one thing you can exchange. You can exchange good deeds, you can exchange revenge, you can exchange murders.

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

Angels have a sense of humor...The angels wants us to enjoy life. Have a good laugh at yourself every now and again for taking life seriously. Then take time to laugh with the angels!

I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch.

When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good moments.

My shoulder's not where I want it to be, but I'm doing a good job of monitoring it.

"How did you - " "Fool your guards? They're not very good. They forgot to check the ceiling for spiders." Valek grinned. His angular face softened.

Poisoned, pursued and living with a psychopath. Not what I would consider the good life. Death has its perks.

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

Usually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy.

All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.'

Hopefully, I will emerge more shining. If I have that good fortune, if I am blessed in that way - and I do feel I am in the middle of the blessing - then I have faith my service will be greater.

Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.

America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people, not saints. We have our own sins to atone for.

Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.

If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me

When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.

Sometimes good things the best things coincide fall apart.

The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.

I was unwilling to be the good girl who respected the rules in a game designed to keep everyone but the rulemakers off balance.

That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them.

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at all.

Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.