I Can Quotes

I make something I can look at and say, "That's a good piece of work, and there's some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it."

Exceptional people learn that doing their best is all they can do.

I can't say Boston is 'home-home.' It's definitely a place I'm growing accustomed to. It's such a great sports town.

But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control.

I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.

Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.

Education can not be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition.

I can talk about Jane Austen until the cows come home.

The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.

When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors.

I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news is I can finally realize my life long dream and buy my wife a solid gold speed boat.

You can do anything to my food and I'll still eat it.

I want to go out there and do the best work I can.

People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can't provide that.

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.

I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.

My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.

Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.

I control every interaction with every human being I'm with. I can actually manage any situation with 98 percent of the people on Earth.

You can't win enough, you can't have enough money, you can't succeed enough. There is not enough.

I truly believe that I can be president of the US if I really want to.

We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.

What is living about? It is the decisions you must make between two rights, hard and costly decisions because always you can do one right thing, but sometimes not two.

I don't worry so much about the audience. I want them very much to be involved and enjoy the movie, but I try to just inhabit the character in a full way, where I can create a personal stake.

I was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!

Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.

Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll, There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road, An' her love, voe the jay o' my soul.

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

The poor should learn what has always been the motto of the rich: "What's mine is mine and what is yours if I can I steal it."

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.

I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.

I can't sit through the superhero films. But I watched Draft Day, and it was kind of sweet in an old-fashioned way.

That's what I can't stand. I know I'll bounce back, and that's what I can't stand.

I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

I've always been interested in people who aren't from anywhere in particular. I think it's all melting. This has been true for as long as I can remember in my adult life.

In my office, I like it quiet, so I can concentrate.

It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.

What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.