J.H. Lee Quotes

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.

We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.

'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.

I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in doing my job and doing it well, and that's wrestling, and that's what I love.

People enjoy making fun of people who are famous they love putting people down.

One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues' gallery. Often times they're as famous - if not more infamous - than our heroes.

My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini.

Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies.

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

We all, to some degree, wish we could have some element of our childhood back again while, for kids, moving on is something they're worried about. They know it's going to happen at some point.

When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength.

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

Bagel in the morning is the ultimate breakfast for me they're just good.

Here's the thing: I think the media underestimates the intelligence of the moviegoer. We need to be fulfilled. People want to sit down and think, and I try to make people think.

Savvy companies are quietly changing up their boards of directors and teams, and this is giving them better collective intelligence, more community admiration, and better financial results.

Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Health and fitness is who I am. It's what I do.

From a pretty early age, I developed an interest in travel. I told my parents I wanted to live abroad, and they said, 'Well, you have to have money to do those things.'

I want to do what I love, which is act, and hopefully through that, leave a positive impact somehow, someway, with somebody.

I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.

Never trust anyone who doesn't drink coffee.

I'm always more comfortable and in a good place when I'm with friends because I know they trust me. I'm able to get great performances from people who trust me.

I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film.

I love actors, and I'm very protective of them. I trust them. It's a mutual trust.

Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.

It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

There is something sad about malevolence, to be wicked. I have always tried to make that come across in the villains I have played.

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

I put my family first, and that's why for a long time, you didn't see me dating or hear about me dating or hear about me out. I had other focuses in my life, and that would be my family and my work.

You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them.

Peace and security both in Europe and in the Pacific still depend on a balance of power.

I'm not the girl that sits at home on a Saturday night plaiting her girlfriend's hair, drinking tea and watching romantic comedies.

Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups.

In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.

The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.