Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life
Akhenaton
Why should I indulge myself and do a David Lean-ish kind of film? I could do my little Jewish Brief Encounter (1945) and disguise it - shorten the noses. But it wouldn`t be as much fun as delivering my dish of insanity.
Mel Brooks
[On working with David Lean] "There was a touch of the bully about him - he`d take it out on the people who were the weakest and most dependent."
Judy Davis
The stage was my prime interest. I had no ambition to be a film actor, and a screen career seemed unlikely to come my way. I`d done a stage adaption of "Great Expectations" before the war and this had been seen by David Lean and Ronald Neame. I went into ...
Alec Guinness
What kept us going was the thought that David Lean, at 54, had done this every day for a year. David Lean was our criterion for survival. - on filming Raiders of the Lost Ark in Tunisia
Steven Spielberg
What kept us going was the thought that David Lean, at 54, had done this every day for a year. David Lean was our criterion for survival. - on filming Raiders of the Lost Ark in Tunisia
Steven Spielberg
I am pretty health-conscious, so when my girlfriend and/or I make dinner--no, I don`t have a cook!--we choose the healthier options: lean meats, steamed veggies, fish, etc. Of course, there are always those cravings for the "bad foods" that I do give in t...
Tiger Woods
I don`t really know why, but danger has always been an important thing in my life - to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could go without cracking up.
William Holden
There is no prize, out there. The only prize is, this one, and what you feel and what you want to accomplish. And if you can, as you start out, these what could be lean years or could be fat years. I feel that I very often watch a lot of young people sort...
Kevin Spacey
Upon getting work as an off-Broadway actor in 1967: I made $70 a week as an actor and I`d been making $60 in LA. Making more than that as an actor was just unbelievable to me. I never went back to typing but had some real lean times in-between. But I didn...
Morgan Freeman
The person that probably stopped me in my tracks as a child - because I used to love to go to the cinema - was David Lean with Great Expectations (1946). I thought everything was somehow better than most of the other movies in terms of the way it looked -...
Ridley Scott
[on The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)]: The original script was ridiculous, with elephant charges and girls screaming round in the jungle. When David Lean arrived, with a new screenwriter, it became a very different thing. I saw Nicholson as an effectiv...
Alec Guinness
When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.
James Lee Burke
When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It`s not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.
Jesse Ventura
We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.
Peter O`Toole
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck
We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It`s happened occasionally where one of them will lean up against the front of the stage and the guy is behind her, and it starts off as just dancing and then it gets into something more.
Chris Frantz
We are not going to install much here in a five-week period. We can lean in one direction or another for what is already in, but in a five-week season, which is essentially what we are looking at, you are not going to significantly change anything and hop...
Angela Moniot
Watching Hitchcock and Lean, the movies they made seem to belong to a culture and a form of expression way beyond my experience and potential.
Phillip Noyce
Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns
Tehyi Hsieh
