B.C. Chase Quotes

You know there's only two things more beautiful than a good gun--a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere.

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.

My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.

I want to do things that will change someone's life, not something they'll forget about tomorrow.

I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.

The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

Hope comes in many forms.

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

I learned a lot about handling fans from established stars.

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.

The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.

In a democracy, society must recognize that the individual has rights which are guaranteed, and the individual must recognize that he has responsibilities which are not to be evaded.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

It's good to find the barrel of the bat again.

I'm still learning....learning from my great grandchildren and everyone around me. I would advise others to keep trying, stop and listen.

I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.

Work is an almost pure expression of the self.

I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we secure our own soul.

I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.

We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me.

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.

She longed to throw something at him. A chair. Herself.

Women don't have a sense of humor. They don't need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may logically deduce tha the Almighty is a female.

And so I beat him and beat him until he kissed me. And then I kept on beating him until he did it properly.

You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.

We do not die with those we mourn.

Unremembered and afar I watched as I watched a star, Through darkness struggling into view And I loved you better than you knew.

Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials?

Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else.

I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.

I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.

I think people are intolerant of artists.

But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended

I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

The Sopranos was the first show about the life of the writer. I never made any secret about the fact that it was about my mother.