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Sydney Pollack Quotes

It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you're directing interferes with your concentration, and I wouldn't do that again.

Sydney Pollack

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: July 1, 1934 - May 26, 2008

Topics

Great Vacation You Act Concentration

I've always loved that, on all the Dylan and Springsteen and Marley and Neil Young reissues that they've done: It's so cool to hear alternate versions and how the song started in their mind.

Jim James

Mind Cool Song Loved Done Young

Luckily, I have two of the coolest parents around. They're so open about having any and all experiences, so they never hindered us in any way by categorizing or judging anything.

John Krasinski

Parents Judging Way Never Anything

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

John Lasseter

Art Me Control Someone You Timing

I feel very at home in L.A., I think, because it's dry, and there's sun, like the West Texas I grew up in.

Stephen Graham Jones

Home Sun Texas Think Feel Up

A winner never stops trying.

Tom Landry

Winner Trying Never Stops

I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the odds of a tough childhood, who worked hard, who didn't let his surroundings get the best of him and lead him to jail or the graveyard. Where I ended up - being a comedian, a TV star, and a movie actor - might be unique, but my story is not.

Tracy Morgan

Best Childhood Tough Story Unique

If Donald Trump is our nominee, I don't think that he represents the best our party has to offer either in temperament or qualification, and I think he's the weakest candidate that is in the race at this point in terms of the general election, and that to nominate him is to give Hillary Clinton a much better chance of being president.

Trent Franks

Best Chance Think Better Party Race

I always thought I'd buy my mother a house if I ever became successful - a big, beautiful house on the nicest street in town. It didn't exactly work out that way. I was still borrowing money from her in my 40s.

Tom Shales

Work Mother Beautiful Money Thought

I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.

Donald Trump

Me You Know Three Need Two

Until I really accepted this about myself and got over any of my own transphobia that I had, I really felt like I wouldn't be accepted. I thought I would ruin my life.

Chaz Bono

Life Myself Thought My Life My Own

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Attitude Meaning Things Lies Our

I wish I wasn't eating Cheetos every night. Those are my favorite - I'm addicted to them!

Ashley Madekwe

Night Eating Wish I Wish Favorite