C.L. Grant Quotes

Yelling doesn't get your point across, it only makes it louder.

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.

Most smoked salts are made with liquid smoke, which is a condensate, but really, really good smoked salt is literally smoked.

Nothing is more powerful than the human spirit.

If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.

I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing anyone.

Rose goblins are built like porcupines - if you rub them the right way, you don't have to worry about the spines. They're sort of like people in that regard, too.​

He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple.

I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.

Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.

I could do with more mobbing. Particularly from women. I'd like to be treated like Ricky Martin.

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

He can who thinks he can.

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers.

Reality and unreality have no clear distinction in our present circumstances.

One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.

The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.

I improve in misquotation.

I can't bear to hear a woman talk baby talk.

Everybody needs a helping hand, take a look at your fellow man.

I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.

Massive success is the best revenge.

Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.

That's great. I'm 100 years old and people are still interested.

Because there wasn’t enough time to play 54

When you're dealing with an ambivalent relationship, you're constantly on guard, grappling with questions of trust.

Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something persists, something that is always Superman.

My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.

Cary Benjamin sleeps dreamily on my stomach as we're both bonding and recuperating. He's phenomenal.

It's not about who's got powers, morons. It's about who's not afraid. And who's going to do what has to be done.

I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.

I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about.

I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me.

We're teachers, and we have a commitment." "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people?

And then the turbines generate electricity that goes into the whole town." "You mean they aren't powered by giant hamsters on wheels? I was misinformed.

Ah, you know my weaknesses--my children and my horses.

In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king

But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary.

If you want to go foraging into the wilds of Canada without proper gear, you deserve what you get, even if that happens to include being attacked by an undead moose.