R. J. Reynolds Quotes

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.

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.

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

I've always had life threats, and they've always been for real.

We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

I just keep traveling and doing live shows.

I'm very strict with myself. I'm an Aries and sort of a challenge to myself.

Every performer should learn a little bit of everything. Most performers today only play the guitar.

Donald O'Connor was in the film [ 'Singin' in the Rain' ] as well, and he was only 27 years old. So we were closer in age, and had more fun together on the set. Gene was more my teacher and mentor.

Marilyn Monroe was taken advantage of by most of the men that knew her, including Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, whom I also knew very well.

Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.

I've met little meanness, wherever I went.

Florida is a very healing place.

The voice of the people, the voice of God.

I'm really much more like Phil Potter from [the 1979 film] Starting Over. People do think I'm the Bandit [from Smokey and the Bandit ], and I'm a lot more serious than that.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

I don't like seeing the stuff that's not polished. It's harder for me to step away from it and watch that.

Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.

I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.

A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.

I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it.

It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear.

I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Sometimes it's just enough to keep your body moving. I get depressed if I don't move.

It's a lot of working out, you know, and you don't get to eat all the things you wanna eat.

By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'.

Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.

Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?

Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.

Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.

Do I read her books? Of course.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

Every time I hangout with Sandra Bullock I think I want to be her. I want to be married to Jesse James.

I wasn't wattching television when I was a youngster; there was the radio.

If it were up to me we'd ban them all.

Teachers are about the brightest stars in our constellation.

The reason why I don't have a hero is because heroes set a bar - whereas if we don't have one, our potential is unlimited.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

It's what they say to do when you're depressed, you know. Walk in someone else's shoes for a while, and your own won't feel so tight.

I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they're nothing like those barefoot shoes that show all five toes. I have a bit of a phobia about those.

If our company is to survive and prosper, over the long term we must get our share of the youth market.

Winston tastes good like a cigarette should

My very worst day on 'Green Lantern' was nowhere near as difficult as my finest day on 'Buried.'

I never thought about doing men. Never.