Producer Quotes

I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.

The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.

If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.

The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to write something different each time I sit down to write; I try to surprise the readers.

You have a gift that only you can give the world - that's the whole reason you're on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable. The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.

If it's not hard, you're not dreaming big enough!

So, it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him- go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again, if I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Life whispers to you all the time...from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience.

Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can.

I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."

Say what you really want to say.

I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special.

As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.

Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.

If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?

Dyin' is a pain in the ass.

When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.

You have the RIGHT to change your mind

I do love you. I mean, love has nothing to do with this.

I had one well known director who kept saying, "Now Clint, this is what ...." And I'd say, "I know. I read the script. I'm the one who cast you as the director. Let me show you and you'll correct me if I'm wrong."

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.

You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.

If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.

What you do today creates every tomorrow.

Your career and your passion don't always match up. Plenty of talented people don't have the careers they want. Plenty of untalented people make millions and make movies. There is a difference between determination and talent.

How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice.

A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.

If you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart - the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.

The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.

Jamie: "I didn't want anybody to be weird around me." Landon: "Including me?" Jamie: "Especially you! You know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened!"

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

Is it shocking that it's very difficult for a news organization to do news in America now? It's not shocking because we're a culture that doesn't want news. We want entertainment. We want info-tainment. That's why CNN is having problems.

Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

You might not understand but i gave you the best of me.

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self.

I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.

In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.

What's [the Beatles'] I Am the Walrus all about?

There is the voice that everybody hears... saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you got to." And then there is the still small voice - for some people not so small - inside every human being that calls you to something that is greater than yourself.

Let passion drive your profession.

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

Where do I go from here?

I think... that when it comes to us, anything is possible.

Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.

You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.