Ed Burns Quotes

The stigma of the straight-to-DVD thing is over.

Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.

Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.

Actors are con men and con men are actors.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind.

Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.

Spielberg gave us three takes before saying anything to us. Since then, I do that, three takes, to let the actors find their rhythm.

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.

If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.

Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town.

I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.

In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.

How did I ever get sick? I've already had everything.

None of us kids had a middle name. We were lucky we had any name at all. By the time my mother got around to naming one, there was another on the way.

It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.

I don't like to drive. I don't like the aggressiveness that goes along with driving.

I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.

I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern.

I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.

You are never more like Christ than when you love, pray for & serve your family.

Do your kids a favor: Love your spouse.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

Don't hustle old people.

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.

I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.

I have found a beautiful summary of the way I work with organisations, and the values I seek to amplify.

Is the circle of fifths a drinking game?

Death is not going to hold down Huell Howser.

One of the main challenges, for me, has been to keep simplicity in its place. It’s only a tool. It’s not the destination, it’s the vehicle that gets us there

People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!

Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where.

It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour.