Ed Lee Quotes

I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.

It's not free. I gave it to you so that you'd answer my calls right away.

I started out wanting to coach football.

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, Id do it.

I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.

Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.

Don't you know. I am a ticking time bomb. I'm going to explode. This time, I may never be able to recover from it!

For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work.

Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own.

Doing a series, every week you work with a new star.

I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me

That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

LA has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.

The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

You do not mess with the special investigators.

People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.

No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.

I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment.

If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.

Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web.

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.

How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?

I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.

Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities

Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.

Hawaii doesn't win many games in the United States.

I learn the whole script before I show up.

I've dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I'm tough.

A good deal is a state of mind.

I've made many good friends in bodybuilding, though there are few I'd trust to oil my back.

If there are people who like the work you've done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that's really gratifying. You have to be appreciative.

Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me!

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

What I want from you, those are just things like this. Not hot things, but warm things.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

No matter how sick your body is, extending Love will reduce your suffering and aid in healing.

I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next.

I consider myself really lucky and I always have done. My approach is that if I know I'm relaxed and happy, then I will do my best work.