On Giving Quotes

My producers give me total freedom. No one asks me for anything; they just tell me to make a good film, and that's what I do.

If you give yourself that short little moment of thinking, then you cannot miss it.

However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.

In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.

You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt].

I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.

Today it is time to give the government a new lease of life and this new phase which is as demanding as it is inspiring requires renovated energy and new faces.

I started producing out of necessity. It's not that I want to become a full time producer, but it gives me control over my creative life.

NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a way you probably wouldn't do in a normal circumstance.

I do sometimes feel like the paparazzi are really what ran me out of L.A. They're just giving everyone a bad name.

When you give people who are being financially responsible money, you are enabling them to continue a bad habit. So you are actually helping by saying, "Love you but no."

[My grandmother] managed her money better than some financial professionals I know. I give credit always to her because she is the reason I have my column and national recognition.

If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it.

I expected him to say, 'Hang in there' or something like that. It took me an hour to talk him into giving me another chance!

It is the link from the present to the past that gives us a spirit to address the future.

I'd give dollar for indefinite article.

Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

He that gives quickly gives twice.

I think driving, at least for me, is a good way to listen to music. Sitting in traffic gives you time to listen to an entire record straight through and give it almost [your] full attention.

God gives everybody gifts, but he doesn't give anybody all the gifts.

All true success flows out of giving something to someone.

I'm from Hope, Arkansas, you may have heard of it. All I'm asking is, give us one more chance.

John McCain will follow the fanatics to their caves in Pakistan or to the gates of hell. What Obama wants to do is give them a place setting at the table.

People have been very resistant to giving me more than the standard amount of money. So I keep making films on a similar scale. Which is fine, but also frustrating.

L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.

I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it.

The Trump Foundation is a private-family foundation. They give virtually every cent in the Trump Foundation to charitable causes.

We've got to give a quality effort every day and play better.

I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.

I am truly honored because I know, obviously, what Bob meant to the Twins. I always told myself, when I put a uniform on for the first time in 1998, that I'm going to give everything I have.

Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.

As an actor, it's better to just be more loose and give yourself over. That's always fun. It's fun to just let go and be somebody else.

To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully.

I gave away a lot of works for benefits and then people would also give me back.

I will never give up politics. I've tried to give it up three times, but I never made it. Politics mobilizes me. I won't last long if I give it up.

There is only one way to go: up. I like to find cheap assets with problems. It gives me power.

By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words, words that would reflect physical love as in a set of mirrors.

Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.

Most of my fans are young; they pay for their own tickets and work really hard to be able to come, and so I want to give all of them the best show.

I've never actually seen a 3-D movie. I've seen some dailies in 3-D and it kind of gives me a headache. But it looks really cool.

[Andy Murray] tries to get you to do a lot of different things. He tries to throw you off by giving you some slower balls and some harder balls.

Directing is exhausting, but not for the actual directing part, when you say "Action!" and give creative notes. As a director, the exhausting part is that you are a professional answer-machine.

I think women in general like men that don't give them the thing that we want. We want a chase.

Exercise is like meditation for me, and I'm giving myself that time... I can't live without it now.

If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving.

I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.

I won’t give up what I enjoy to look perfect. I want to find a happy medium between feeling good about my body and still having a beer and some barbecue.