We Can Quotes

I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.

I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond!

Whereas your blackness, ethnicity, homosexuality is something that might be genetic, I can't touch that, and I have no right.

I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.

I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.

On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.

I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

All the people you have killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you and the best thing the Labour Party can do is sack you tomorrow morning.

Now that I am no longer President, I find I can no longer win every game of golf I play.

I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.

There are things we can do to give us a little more attention.... I've got to look more frantic.

Acting has always been something for me that's been a romp. I just show up and I have a good time, and I hope that I get through the day and I can have lunch in the sun.

I just don't think it's healthy to only have one pursuit, even if it's a seemingly positive thing. You can do a positive thing to the nth degree, and it turns on you at some point. You become stuck.

The amount of grace I would expect from God should be equal to the amount of grace I can gather or earn. I get out what I put in.

Now it may seem so far from where we all are It's something we can't neglect It's something I can't neglect Now won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck.

The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.

I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic.

Somehow, I can't say how, it tells me that all is right; that it is coming to swallow up all cries.

I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.

Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do.

I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.

I don't remember a lot of what I write. I try to release it after it's out there so that I can be fresh again.

If I can't affect some change in six years, maybe I'm in the wrong place.

I want to enjoy myself in this planet for as long as I can for the people I care about.

I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.

I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.

I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.

The older we get and the longer we labor in the Church the more there is that we can do. There is no need for any person in this Church to have an empty hand or an empty heart.

I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe.

The maester smiled...Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can....die as I please.

I can be humbler than anyone.

Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.

You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

I think something that I can't name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity.

That's the only way that I can figure out how to live, is to say, "Well, I don't know what this adds up to, but I can do the best I can."

I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.

If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.

I think the path for a young writer might be one that says, "I have to accept myself, this is what I am. I can't eradicate my defects. I can work on them."

[Reading Swing Time] made me a feel a little bit like when I used to read David [Foster] Wallace. Like, "I can't play that game. I wish I could, but I can't do it."