The Good Quotes

Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.

I've gotten super into restaurants in L.A., so I try to go to different restaurants all the time that's a good way to explore L.A.: you can drive to a restaurant and discover a new neighborhood.

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.

My first love is MMA... it's something that I did because it made me feel good.

They say I'm a one-horse trainer but didn't I make a good job of it?

Always care for the writing part first. Every good film project starts with good writing. If you have a good script, everything else follows. Writing is crucial.

A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with.

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

It feels good. It feels real good.

I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good.

I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

I have loads of stuff that never came out because I really don't think it's good enough.

Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.

I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.

I almost stand in awe when I think of Joseph Smith. The angel appeared to him in 1823 - he said to this simple little boy, 'Your name should be known for good and evil throughout the entire world.'

I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.

It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.

Forgiveness isn't simply an option or a good idea; it is mandatory for our restorative process.

God is all over the place. And even if He isn't, if it makes me feel good, why not?

I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.

I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.

You don't want to be hard to look at. Plain very good, hard to look at bad. The plain shall inherit the earth; time is our friend.

My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.

I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy.

Good enough to tweet, not to say.

I've been playing the bad guy in the last seven or eight projects I've done. I like it. It's a lot more interesting! Being the good guy gets a little stale after a while, you know?

I am not the least bit religious, but at least I stick up for the good work of religion and the cascade of benefits that come from religion.

Good people suddenly don't turn bad.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil because it will produce a greater good.

My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.

I think for a classical musician the goal is the same as an electronic musician. A very good professional classical musician must not think about technique.

You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good

But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time.

I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.

I haven't got a good reputation with pain.

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.

There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.

It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker.

I don't like the idea of agents in a typical form. The idea of agents, to me, brings up the idea of a man in a very boring suit who's not very good looking and doesn't have much attention to style.

When you're a parent, you're just like, God, I hope they like me when they grow up. I hope that I did a good job. I hope they're gonna be happy.

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.

Each language gives you something different so that's a good enough reason for you to learn it.

If you have a very hot experience then shock yourself with cold water, it's very very good for the nervous system.