"That's a big responsibility, and the details obsess me. And, also, I no longer feel I have to do the Tonight Show every time I open my mouth. Twenty years ago, I told myself I'd rather direct than act, and it's taken me this long. You lose your passion in acting. You make too many mistakes. Maybe that's why I make so many movies; if you don't like this one, another one's opening on Tuesday. But then I spent six months of my life on 'At Long Last Love,' a picture nobody saw. I enjoyed making it, I learned from it, I grew, but that's too much time out of my life."

-- Burt Reynolds

#Mistake Quotes #Taken Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.”

Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.236, Pan Macmillan
“The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of sight, that somewhere in the apartment she was sleeping or eating or sitting watchfully. It was family, he guessed, more or less. Did most people want a house of living things at night, to know that in the dark around them other warm bodies slept? Such a house could even be the whole world.”

Source : Lydia Millet (2009). “How the Dead Dream”, p.185, Counterpoint Press
“Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working.”
“I guess one gets the face one deserves.”

Source : "Fictional character: Swana". "Ninotchka", www.imdb.com. 1939.
“The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.”
“March 16th, Mike Tyson [vs.] Razor Ruddock, Razor Ruddock dies. If he doesn't die, it doesn't count. If he's not dead, it doesn't count.”
“People often get racism mixed up with bigotry or prejudice. We need to get our terminology straightened out. We obviously have racial problems that need solving. The first step in solving a problem is to identify it. If we keep mis-identifying bigotry and prejudice as racism we'll never make any headway”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“You cannot con an honest man.”

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