R. J. Reynolds Quotes

Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.

My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.

What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

Marilyn Monroe was a very sweet girl, she was a very innocent girl.

I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I'm not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall.

I don't give parties, and I'm not in that social scene. I couldn't care less.

I started to earn money because we didn't have money.

Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

We could all be in a turtle's dream, in outer space!

Thinking of holding back is blowing it more than pushing your hardest and falling.

You get to a certain age, where you know you can't go over the wall, but I'll never get to the age where I can't go through it.

I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.

I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.

We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.

If you have a secret, keep it to yourself.

Trans Am sales went up 70 percent after Smokey and the Bandit, and I was promised a free car every year for life by the Pontiac president.

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.

There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.

I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.

I'm the guy doing calisthenics. I'm doing jumping jacks and deep knee bends. I work out like a British person.

I also know that you can lie not only by what you say but what you don't say.

It's all right to have secrets, ... as long as you don't have any secrets from yourself.

The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.

I have bullshit moments every once in a while - like every actor does.

I've always just liked working. I like being a working actor.

I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.

The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground.

I'm just a movie fan. I used to go to the movies just to watch movies.

I have over five thousand costumes and props and cars, and I have a twenty-five thousand square foot warehouse full of memorabilia.

Gene Kelly was a great dancer and I was lucky to be in 'Singin' in the Rain.' He was my teacher when I was 17 years old, when he was 37 years old. He taught me everything.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

Friends come in herds and they leave in herds. Hollywood loves an adventure, but you have to hit bottom. Then they love to save you and be a part of it. Or think they're a part of it.

If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

I think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are what make it stronger, I think.

New Orleans is one of the most exciting, incredible communities in the world. There's such a rich culture and history, and there are innumerable things to do.

I'm six foot two. If I need security around me, there's a problem.

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It’s a strange thing.

God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.

Dream the dream that is trying to be dreamed through you.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.

I loved working with Bette Davis. Bette Davis was great to work with and a wonderful teacher, and very kind to me. We became good friends.

Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

I'm a bit of an M&M nut. I like the blue ones. I pick them out.