My Way Quotes

Your marriage goes to a whole new level. You not only fall in love with your wife in a new way, but you're forced to pull together. You have to become a united front.

I come from the theater, so for me rehearsal is vital and a way of life. There are many film directors who don't believe in it and some actors who prefer not to rehearse.

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.

My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic.

I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and it should be that way.

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down.

I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either.

I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.

I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.

Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.

A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.

I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.

Ultimately as much as the film industry is a business, it's a democracy. And the audience votes on how they feel based on the way they spend their money for tickets.

I really think the key to any movie is that you tell the story kind of in a fulsome way, with depth, with skill, and you will find your audience.

Question all as to their ways and learn the secrets that they hold

To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.

This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.

My lawnmower can't change in the way that my son can or that I can.

Berlin is a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way.

...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.

One of the quickest ways to a cat's brain is through its stomach.

I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

He provides a vision. He often reminds countries of their responsibilities in a way that makes it seem not only like a legal obligation but a moral responsibility.

Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.

I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.

Taking a digital holiday is a great way to start bringing balance back into your life.

Oh, what a better way to express your love than a plasticbag full of air.

It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something.

Ultimately, if circumstances line-up in a way that makes it possible for Fugazi to play and the desire was there, we would do that.

There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.

I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favourite shoes.

Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.

When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

Oil is dead, on its way to extinction.

I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

Get your body out of the way and let your spirit soar!

I'm not sure if music got a future. We have all these electronic ways to download and steal music and get music, but there's no money in makin' music.

You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.

I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.

It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

I'm afraid because some police are way out of control. My true feeling with police is this: If they do their job, there's no problem.

I just don't believe that there's any way that you're ever gonna get one peace, because everybody has different ways of seeing life.