Ed Lee Quotes

Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.

hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch

No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it.

Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

If it wasn't for golf, I don't know what I'd be doing. If my IQ had been two points lower, I'd have been a plant somewhere.

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs.

There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

No matter how good or experienced, he [Sehwag] can kill your attitude.

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I think it really is is blackmail in a pin-striped suit.

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

Nobody likes to be preached to.

Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.

We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.

Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.

To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as much of a success.

It's all right to pull the cow out of the mud on Sunday, provided that you don't push him in on Saturday night.

I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.

So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

Yes, a Major would mean so much to me but I'm a great believer that if you work hard and in the right way, you will get what you deserve.

Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

What is heard and how it is heard is more important than what you say.

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

People need things. I don't live a monk's existence, I'm a consumer, but I try to do it to the level that doesn't feel like there's an overabundance of something.

People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It is not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life for this child.

I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

~As a mom, you have to look at how much time you're spending with your kids. There is nothing you will regret more in your life - nothing - than not being present for your children.~

I'm a disciplinarian. I'm the tough love pet owner. I believe in very well-behaved animals.

Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.

Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.

The missing aren't missing, they're only departed, All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded.

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?