All Quotes

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.
‐‐ Toni Servillo

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.
‐‐ Bob Fosse

Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
‐‐ Naomi Watts

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.
‐‐ George Clooney

Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I didn't look like a soprano. But in New York, I was in the right place at the right time, where my unusualness fit the bill.
‐‐ Jessie Mueller

Directors don't call you for your beauty but for your talent.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci

Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.
‐‐ Jason Alexander

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.
‐‐ Alan J. Pakula

Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.
‐‐ Michael Douglas

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.
‐‐ Catherine Deneuve

Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.
‐‐ John Landis

Directors never give you anything.
‐‐ Claudia Christian

Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. Actually, if you follow a formula, you will probably end up with a bad movie.
‐‐ Patricia Riggen

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
‐‐ Aaron Eckhart

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.
‐‐ Dianne Wiest

Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

Directors tell me what to do, and I kind of just put my own twist to it, just to get inside my personality that everybody doesn't really get to see - my off-the-court interests and the way I act. It's just me.
‐‐ Kyrie Irving

Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.
‐‐ Todd Phillips

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.
‐‐ Richard King

Dirk is like the German Moses, invincible and inspiring. That is why 'His Name Is Dirk' must be the Official Fan Song for Dirk Nowitzki.
‐‐ Flula Borg

Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
‐‐ Flula Borg

Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.
‐‐ Hedy Lamarr

'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans to hear that one.
‐‐ Luke Bryan

Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work, and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.
‐‐ Mike Rowe

'Dirtbag' is just the term we use, like a 'gnarly dude' in surfing. Within the climbing culture, it means being a committed lifer: someone who has embraced a minimalist ethic in order to rock climb. It basically means you're a homeless person by choice.
‐‐ Alex Honnold

'Dirtiest Secret' is Dallas Sykes' story. And it is a stand-alone trilogy that readers can come to completely fresh.
‐‐ Julie Kenner

'Dirty Dancing', 'Grease', those were the movies that I used to watch over and over and over at my grandma's house when I was a little girl. I just remember watching them, and I always wanted to be Sandy, and I wanted to be Baby. I wanted to be the girl who's lifted in the dance, and she's beautiful and all those things.
‐‐ Kathryn McCormick

'Dirty Dancing' is one of my favorite movies, and I was in love with Patrick Swayze for years, but I tried to stay out of his way and never to meet him because I knew if I did, he'd want to talk about yogurt or some weird dietary restriction or something.
‐‐ Eve Babitz

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.
‐‐ Charlton Heston

'Dirty Jobs' is a fun, simple little show with huge themes under it. For me, it's penance, it's redemption, it's a sweaty mess.
‐‐ Mike Rowe

'Dirty Jobs' is maybe the simplest show in the history of TV, with the possible exception of 'The Gong Show'. I go around the country; we've shot in every state. And we spend a day with people who do jobs that are dirty or dangerous or ridiculous or difficult.
‐‐ Mike Rowe

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.
‐‐ Steve Martin

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
‐‐ Stella Young

Disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness or mental issues or pain issues.
‐‐ Nina Easton

Disability informs almost every part of my life. It's as important, if not more so, than my gender and sexuality. It's certainly a great deal more important to me than my religion or whether or not I caught a tram, ferry or bus to work.
‐‐ Stella Young

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
‐‐ Martina Navratilova

Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.
‐‐ Stella Young

Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a deep understanding of systemic discrimination and abuse faced by disabled people.
‐‐ Stella Young

Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more - by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura

Disabled veterans are not a bargaining chip.
‐‐ Jim Bridenstine

Disaffection, alienation and conspiracy theories are commonplace among European Muslims, but dangerous Islamist radicalism and the Islamic State's 'foreign fighter' recruitment successes tend to be specific to certain European towns, districts and ghettos.
‐‐ Terry Glavin

Disaffection stalks around us.
‐‐ Dolley Madison

Disagreement is something normal.
‐‐ Dalai Lama

Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Disagreements will always occur between us, but we all approach them wanting the best for each and every one of us, for the whole people.
‐‐ Reuven Rivlin

Disappointing cakes have often been sitting out too long. They should last just long enough to have the last pieces the next morning with coffee - who doesn't love cake with coffee?
‐‐ Tom Douglas

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.
‐‐ Kristin Armstrong