"When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit"

-- Brian De Palma

#Successful Quotes #Financial Quotes #Bigs Quotes

“You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.”

Source : "8 More Priceless Bits of Wisdom from Lost Interviews with 20th Century Icons" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. December 5, 2014.
“To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We've got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.”
“This was a no-brainer, ... When it came down to it, I said to myself, Hey, you can still play, you can still play at a high level and you still enjoy playing. Why not play?”
“Self-respect is the best of all.”
“I'm also pretty impressive when I'm shoving the neck of a lute into someone's chest cavity.”
“Somewhere along the line I'll be recognized as one of the top players in the Nicklaus era. That's all I want to be remembered for.”
“Everybody's different and every person is different and every actor's different and everybody has different wants and needs, but I'm a kid who loved comic books my whole life.”
“We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named.”

Source : Dorianne Laux (2011). “The Book of Men: Poems”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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