Cecil B Demille Quotes

#1. The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?

Cecil B. DeMille

#2. A good thing this was, and that we should be so care-free and irresponsible, enjoying every minute of every day; for it was the Easter of 1914, the last Easter of the old, easy world, and our last, as well as our first, Easter as children together in the little house I had built for happiness.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#3. What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.

Cecil B. DeMille

#4. Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

Cecil B. DeMille

#5. Hollywood got into the act, with director Cecil B. DeMille helping erect literally thousands of granite monuments to the Ten Commandments across the nation as part of a promotional campaign for his blockbuster film of the same name.

Kevin M. Kruse

#6. I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times.

Richard Farnsworth

#7. The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling,

Cecil B. DeMille

#8. Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.

Remy De Gourmont

#9. The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.

Cecil B. DeMille

#11. Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Cecil B. DeMille

#12. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

#13. Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.

Michelle Malkin

#14. It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Cecil B. DeMille

#15. Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Cecil B. DeMille

#16. I win my awards at the box office.

Cecil B. DeMille

#17. That pesky acting career has always gotten in the way of me doing something with music.

Michael Chiklis

#18. I make my pictures for people, not for critics.

Cecil B. DeMille

#19. What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Germaine Greer

#20. The public is always right.

Cecil B. DeMille

#21. How many more are there like you? (Maggie)
Enough to make the cast of a Cecil B. DeMille film look like a two-man opera. (Wren)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

Cecil B. DeMille

#23. There can be no liberty without the law.

Cecil B. DeMille

#24. The only job you have in life is to recognize and honor your personal legend

Paulo Coelho

#25. I might have remembered what my father once wrote to Henry George, I never do anything by halves, and am half hearted in no cause that I embrace.

Cecil B. DeMille

#26. I'm a little more goofy than I think people give me credit for. I like to have fun. I like to have a good time. People don't always get to see that.

J. J. Watt

#27. God gave us free agency, and then gave us the commandments to keep us free.

Cecil B. DeMille

#28. I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

Steven Spielberg

#29. Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai ... but he has never improved on God's law.

Cecil B. DeMille

#30. As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures.

Cecil B. DeMille

#31. Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

Cecil B. DeMille

#32. As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

Tiger Woods

#33. Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.

Cecil B. DeMille

#34. I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#35. I think we could be at a tipping point

Charles Schumer

#36. I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.

Henry David Thoreau