On Giving Quotes

I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

To be unrecognizable in movies is the biggest compliment that anybody can give you.

Taxi Driver' is a movie that changed my life and made me a serious actor. Scorsese and De Niro. I give credit for anything that I've ever done as an actor.

You've got to give people a fair chance of saying what they believe, and then you've got to decide, "Do you believe 'em?"

I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies.

I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.

There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.

That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.

He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.

It's important for me to give each thing the possibility to speak and also to allow artworks speak to each other.

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.

I waste a lot of my time documenting my "search for great esoterica" online. It gets so complicated trying to identify or give credit to all of one's influences.

The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.

There's no question that increased formal credentials can give you an advantage. The question is, is it the best advantage you can buy with the amount of money and time you're going to spend?

I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the Republicans when you're an integrated congregation? It doesn't happen.

One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money.

We have a unique chance to heal divisions, give everyone a stake in the future and set an example as the most creative, innovative and progressive country in the world.

I'm taking T.O., every day... He gives me the whole football field.

Consumers are time constrained, budget restricted and less loved than they would like. Give them a wonderful experience and they will share it. Capture their soul and win big time.

Transform your employees into passionate disciples. Teach. Create apostles. Give people a calling, not a job.

A curious mind armed with skill, experience, knowledge, and patterns can give birth to big brand revolution.

If I have something and move forward, it is only my weakness, which I hate and turn into my strength. You are not lost as long as you do not give up!

Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.

Don't give in to hate - it puts you off balance

You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.

My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you're coming after it.

I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another?

I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.

We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.

Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It takes a lifetime. Enjoy it!

I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

I give people my heart and my full attention.

If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that are giving you something to work with, and I got that in spades.

If you give me enough time, enough leash, I can become pretty reasonable.

I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.

I write and perform for the feeling it gives me, and the experience of being connected with a room full of people to the vibration of music

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.

I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.

Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.

I think the writer is always the creator, because he's starting with nothing, but the actor comes in and gives flesh and blood.