How To Be Good Quotes

I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.

Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to me a good thing.

I believe in cooperating for the common good.

My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion.

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

My success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.

Your life is supposed to feel good to you.

It is my dominant intent to be good to me.

I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors before because the part I had such passion for.

All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life.

All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something.

A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.

All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start in the business, get success without getting a big head and learn your craft.

I'm not a matchmaker. I'm a horrible matchmaker. I always try. I'm not very good.

For me, as far as skin, I'm a big advocate of facials. And I moisturize. And I read my magazines. I listen to good advice from people who really know, and I try to watch what I eat.

I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.

I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.

For you to be able to take a picture of yourself that you feel good enough about to share with the world - I think that's a great thing.

I love parties. I love a good time.

We all must try to be good.

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .

I have to say I like Obama a lot. His record is the best. He's always been vocal about his opposition to the war in Iraq. Frankly, he seems very good in a lot of ways.

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.

Any time you put Matheny in, that's good managing.

I was convinced before the game that we had a very good chance but today was what you would call in Germany a blackout.

I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

Even though I found you on an ordinary day, it felt like I found a precious pearl in an oyster when I deep dived into the sea. Baby, you are really that precious to me.

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.

I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.

But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences

The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

Children...will never go astray while they are in good company.

Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity.

The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone.

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.