Really Great Quotes

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.

You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.

Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.

I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.

The problem in child care, which really all of us are going to have to think hard on, is that there is no really great solution that we can come up with for ages zero to three.

I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

I'm really great with weapons: I did a lot of bo and staff training for 'Immortals.' I love knives. I'm a pretty good shot. But I love hand-to-hand combat.

I've done a lot of independent travelling, which hasn't been the best career choice, but it's been a really great life choice.

I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.

Speaking for myself, I try to go out there on the stage and make jokes with people, so I'm not really thinking about the impact anything I have. If it does resonate with people, that's really great.

For Colin Firth: You're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends.

It's really great that people are seeing me as a credible person. That alone is great. And the fact that people make fan accounts for me and recognize me now sometimes is really strange and cool.

To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

I've never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn't know how really great he is.

On a quick side note, I would argue that--much like Samuel L. Jackson--I am not arrogant at all; I'm just actually really, really great.

If you go to a really great shop that stocks really great stuff and it doesn't makes it feel like a super secret club there's tons of stuff to find all way time.

Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. His leaps were big. There was something really great about his moves.

[Dario Argento] would yell at you in Italian, and I'd have no idea what he was saying. I'd just go, "Okay!". But it was a really great experience [filming Two Evil Eyes ].

When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.

I think a lot of people have this idea that if you put something on YouTube you'll get famous overnight. It would be really great if that was possible, but that's not really how it works.

I also made a lot of really great friends on that show [the Voice], so that's one of the most important things that I've taken out of that experience.

A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.

The goal of Apple is not to make money but to make really nice products, really great products.

Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.

Fame is really great in a lot of ways, you know? People are a lot nicer to you. Like, the more famous you are, the more free presents you get. And invitations to really amazing things.

My brother is what got me into the show business. So it's a really great relationship we have. Our whole family is - we're thick as thieves.

If you just take the time to look, then yeah, you will find some really great music in Holland. Just scratch the surface and look underneath the corporate surface.

I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

I had some really great experiences doing overdubs.

Looking back, I have to say that I've been fortunate to work with a lot of great people. Unfortunately, a lot of them are gone. But I look back and, yeah, I have had a really great career!

[Payne] was a really great experience, and both John [ Larroquette] and JoBeth [Williams] over the years, it's been great reconnecting with them and working with them on other projects as well.

I think we're really - we're doing a really great job doing our show, and other shows are doing a great job doing theirs, and we'll just see what people have to say.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

You can't be focussed without really great communication

I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.

I've never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.