Be Great Quotes

Providing great customer service is the most natural activity in the world. It’s fun to help others because it feels good.

There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.

The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!

If American Idol was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race.

Ralph Angel was such a great character. The single-father image has been portrayed in so many ways so having the ability to be a part of that narrative excites me!

I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.

I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

I wanted to honor [George Gershwin]. He's a great American songwriter.

Having a great marriage isn't rocket science. It's simply a choice.

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned upside down.

One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.

I think it's important to do great work.

One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.

When we have the Spirit to direct us, we are capable of teaching with great power.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

I alone am different from the others, because I am nourished by the great mother.

You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.

A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield.

A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.

If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.

My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.

Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

There are a lot of women that I think are very powerful and would be great presidents.

What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

We goofed around a lot and acted silly. It was great working with Mark Wahlberg too. Some off scenes I had with him I was terrified to do, but he was great.

Working with them was a great experience. Victor Garber, Stephen McHattie and Ray Liotta - they were all bang-up.

The sci-fi fans, in general, do support me, which I love them for. They're great fans.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

That's one of the great thing about writing is that you get to be in someone's head.

One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.

Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth'; turning all our thinking upside down.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

That team across the way, you tip your hat to them. They did a great job. It showed in these Finals.

I've had great people come in my life, meaning not just men, but women, support me and empower me. So that has lifted me to be the woman I am.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

You never know where you're going to find a great actor.

Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

Doing great requires that we become great people, and all of us can become great people.

You hope you can fix it with the personnel that you have. On offense, we are doing some great things, but we did not execute. This group of men that I represent likes to work hard.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

We have lived too long. The great days are past.

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.