R. J. Reynolds Quotes

A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service.

I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?

One take, so you better be ready and you better be good. One take and that was it. It was something that was spontaneous. Both Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason was like that as well.

Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.

My belief also is that Marilyn Monroe passed away long before she should have left us.

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

In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration.

Some other eyes will look around, and find the things I've never found.

The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.

When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.

You always get that one customer that decides that your name is boy. Or something. It certainly reinforces a respect I already had for people that are in the hospitality industry.

He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.

You know, there's nobody where I've said, 'Man, I really want that guy's career.' I mean, each of us has to make our own go of it.

Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline.

I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."

I lead such a boring life.

I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

I always say that chemistry is something impossible to manufacture. It's either there or it isn't. The fact that you're friends doesn't necessarily equate to great chemistry.

I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.

As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.

What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immovable foundation they must ever stand.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others.

I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I do have the heart of a lion.

All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all.

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

Happiness is wanting what you have.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must originally flow.

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention.

It's sad when you see someone do really well and then you just don't hear about them anymore.

However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light it can be shown.

Perhaps blue, red, and yellow strike the mind more forcibly from there not being any great union between them, as martial music, which is intended to rouse the nobler passions.

Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.

That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em, We may live with, but cannot live without 'em.

Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit.

Lets nail it down, lets get it right.

I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. Ill plead guilty to that.

When prayers are strongest, mercies are nearest.

An idea in the head is like a rock in the shoe; I just can't wait to get it out.

The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.

If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.

I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.

Weight has never been a problem with me because when you dance, it just stays off.