Best Quotes

"'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves"

"To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them"

Dino De Laurentiis, Director

"All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that"

Nathan Lane, Actor

"Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause"

Mel Carnahan, Politician

"The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close"

Joel Madden, Musician

"The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland"

James Larkin, Activist

"I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife"

Haile Gebrselassie, Athlete

"It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us"

Janet Jackson, Musician

"I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile"

Sacha Guitry, Director

"I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career"

Andrea Jung, Businessman

"It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how"

Holly Near, Musician

"In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left"

John Podesta, Lawyer

"America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man"

Ilka Chase, Actress

"You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow"

Harriet Martineau, Writer

"You can best fight any existing evil from the inside"

Hattie McDaniel, Actress

"Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders"

David Knopfler, Musician

"I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on"

Patti Davis, Celebrity

"America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it"

Jim Ramstad, Politician

"But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become"

Coretta Scott King, Activist

"I worked with everybody, the best, and they actually paid me money to stand next to the people I idolized"

Bobby Sherman, Musician

"I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best"

Courtney Love, Musician

"Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had"

David Beckham, Athlete

"James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub"

Billy Corgan, Musician

"The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections"

Djuna Barnes, Novelist

"But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was"

Chevy Chase, Comedian

"My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can"

Christopher Fry, Playwright

"You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff"

Bob Seger, Musician

"When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty"

Betty Dodson, Educator

"But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best"

Barry Bonds, Athlete

"It is incumbent on us to facilitate the development of a market structure that best assures that these changes benefit the U.S. securities markets as a whole"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer"

Anne Campbell, Politician

"I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind"

Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist

"You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest"

Denis Waitley, Writer

"If you do this, you're going to have some heartaches from it. You're going to have people yelling at you or maybe screaming at you or criticizing you, but I think it's the best way to sell a superior chicken"

Frank Perdue, Businessman

"The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors"

Stella Adler, Actress

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