Kind Quotes - Page 164

You're the kind of man a man wants when a man wants a man.

I guess I just always want to surprise myself and say something that I'm not really quite sure where it came from, and it sort of makes sense and has a kind of profundity to it. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

When you make your first film, it's really hard in some ways. You're just nowhere. But then you have something. If you have a success, then you might be looking to take a fall. If you had a fall, you get a certain kind of euphoria because you're not dead, so you can still do it again. It's about how you go through the processes. Do you enjoy that "doing"? Is it getting less fun or more fun?

Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is served in ample portions.

There's some kind of a thing where when she was Secretary of State she was using her own e-mail instead of the State Department, and I thought finally, a Clinton scandal the entire family can enjoy.

But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into the bodily appetite. Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. The one is, perhaps, the most refined passion of the soul; the other the most gross and vulgar. The love of beauty is placed in a just medium betwixt them, and partakes of both their natures: From whence it proceeds, that it is so singularly fitted to produce both.

If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.

Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.

I was never violent. I denounced even back then violence and left it because I didn't want to be associated with that kind of taint.

All done by kindness.

When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.

The success of the '86 movie with Brandon Lee demanded some kind of continuation. Plus, I had always contemplated a modern version.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.

It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, '67.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.

The similarities among different kinds of audiences far outweigh the differences.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.