Roy Scheider famous quotes

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Freedom is a muscle...you have to exercise it.
-- Roy Scheider

#Exercise #Muscles
To be on the wire is life - the rest - is waiting.
-- Roy Scheider

#Waiting #Wire
Brody cannot believe the size of the creature, and with a classic, practical understatement tells Quint his assessment: You're gonna need a bigger boat. Awestruck, they all view the full-sized, massive shark circling the boat. Quint estimates it is 25 feet long: Three tons of him.
-- Roy Scheider

#Believe #Assessment #Views
You read a lot about movies with budgets of $25 to 30 million. Hell, if a studio can piss away that kind of money, why not let 'em piss on me?
-- Roy Scheider

#Ems #Why Not #Kind
The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.
-- Roy Scheider

#Important #Matter #Good Work
To be on the wire is life. The rest is waiting.
-- Roy Scheider

#Waiting #Wire

Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.
I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous. I really had a blast. We were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn't have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted. Learned how to survive without anything.
Nobody gets muscles by watching ME lift weights.
It takes 65 muscles to frown and 13 to make a smile. Why work overtime?
I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i'm trying it out.
Forcing yourself to shiver is one of the hardest things on your muscles and isometrics.
Just because your muscles start to protest, doesn't mean you have to listen.

Roy Scheider famous quotes

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