S.R. Ford Quotes

Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.

The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.

It's really never fair to judge people because none of us know what's going on inside anyone else's head.

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

I've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain?

We had access to too much equipment, too much money, and little by little we went insane.

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what's one's future to try and do, and after that do it.

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.

I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

Friends aren't any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.

What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.

Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.

The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

For all the progress, we recognize we're very far from the finish line.

I didn't read a serious book until I was 19.

There's no such thing as no chance.

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.

Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.

The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things.

I want to make beautiful clothes for women and men who appreciate detail and quality. The product must be the best but this is almost secondary to the service the customer will receive.

Whether we think we can or cannot, we are right.

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

We've got horse property and there's other stuff to do. Like, four wheel driving, we barbeque, drink beers, sit around and play guitars and have a merry 'ol time

The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.

Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.

Some people think they can; some think they can't. They are probably both right.

When deep down in the core of your being you believe that your soulmate exists, there is no limit to the ways he or she can enter your life.

It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!

Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.

Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry.

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.