American Film Institute Quotes

#1. The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.

Lloyd Kaufman

#2. What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Anna Jameson

#3. If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.

David Hare

#4. Some people are only "believers" because they want God to give them things; a thrill, money, spiritual gifts etc. but they never think twice about what THEY can give to God. They are Christian parasites, always wanting more, rather than Christian servants, who are always willing to give.

Lisa Bedrick

#5. When I am old, I shall wear purple

Jenny Joseph

#6. Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
(Essay on Tea, 1757.)

Samuel Johnson

#7. Don't buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.

James Altucher

#8. I should be doing that too. I should be out there running and racing. I should be taking care of my body.

Gerry Lindgren

#9. People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.

Abraham Hicks

#10. God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.

J.C. Ryle

#11. Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

Abraham Lincoln

#12. It's always nice to do a family movie, because I do a lot of R-rated stuff.

Craig Robinson