Well Quotes

"I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things"

James Taylor, Musician

"Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest"

David Sanborn, Musician

"In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States"

Edwidge Danticat, Author

"Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot"

Dixie Lee Ray, Politician

"One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself"

Walter Salles, Director

"Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself"

Robert Vaughn, Actor

"I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines"

Theodore C. Sorensen, Lawyer

"People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world"

Howard Dean, Politician

"I was pleased when the picture was over I fit in all right and I spoke well enough as I said before, cause I was scared to death there for a minute. I mean, you're doing a scene with somebody like that or they're watching you or something, you'd better come up with something"

Rod Steiger, Actor

"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"

Latrell Sprewell, Athlete

"They're calling their Washington sources at the NRC or in Congress and they're not hesitating to give their opinion, but their opinion, frankly, in those early days was not very well informed"

William Scranton, Politician

"Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious"

Hugo Black, Judge

"Well physically preparing for the role, definitely and then continuing to stay physically fit throughout filming, getting up, 4.00 4.30 in the morning"

Brandon Routh, Actor

"And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months"

Brandon Routh, Actor

"I was very pleased you know, and I was afraid that I might stick out, but I didn't. My happiest thing about that picture is that I proved that American actors can speak as well and also fit in with an ensemble like that"

Rod Steiger, Actor

"It was only supposed to be on WCW compilation; on that wrestling compilation. And for that I thought it was good. And then we threw it on our record as well"

Kerry King, Musician

"Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well"

James MacArthur, Actor

"Actually, if I could find a woman who was that wonderful; that understanding, well, I'd give her everything in the world that was in my power to give. And, I'd love her more than I ever thought it possible to love any woman"

James MacArthur, Actor

"Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind of music as well as the rest of the guys naturally are - and being a fan, we kind of get pleased by our music as fans and as being in SLAYER"

Kerry King, Musician

"I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either"

Aesop, Author

"What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well"

John McEnroe, Athlete

"I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips"

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist

"I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't"

John Lithgow, Actor

"I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved"

John Malkovich, Actor

"On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed"

Eliot Engel, Politician

"She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires"

Edwin A. Robinson

"I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect"

Saul Williams, Musician

"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again"

David Morse

"I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking"

David Bowie, Musician

"We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house"

David Thewlis, Actor

"So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard to really picture the DVD version when I'm in production"

Jay Roach, Director

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