H. S. Leigh Quotes

This garden has a soul, I know its moods.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

As a parent, do the right thing and you don't get in trouble. If you lead a charmed life, you better act like it.

At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded.

I'm always down to do a sitcom. I did 'That '80s Show' back in the day and that was a really great experience.

I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.

I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.

Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings.

The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.

Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.

It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion.

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

You can grow apart from people very quickly.

I feel just like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. You know, except for the whole hooker thing.

The rotating armatures of every generator and motor in this age of electricity are steadily proclaiming the truth of the relativity theory to all who have ears to hear.

Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!

I discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it.

But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.

One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.

For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

He is not coming back." And it hurt.It hurt until she was a mass of pain,worse than it had been when she thought he was dead. More all consuming. Ravaging her insides.

The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.

I'm scared of you two in the same place. That's like putting in an order for trouble, rather than just wishing for it.

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.

Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.

Oh, and the easiest way to make someone furious is to tell her to calm down.

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

You know, you really do choose your existence in a way.

I don't like to do much with my hair - which is good, because I don't know how! I just always make sure I have a great haircut.

I wish I knew the good of wishing.

Do you know, every time I've seen you you've been like the Grim Reaper of goodwill and cheer. You should find another profession.

Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.

I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.