Cleef Quotes

#1. I creep like a thief, no doubt the man's swift,
I'm more magnificent than Lee Van Cleef

Diamond D

#2. I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the more flamboyant, imaginative things. I lusted after costume jewelry. My husband was a very lucky man.

Iris Apfel

#3. He told me it was First, by Van Cleef & Arpels.

Elaine Sciolino

#4. I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

Audrey Hepburn

#5. Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.

Etta James

#6. She'd read somewhere that you only truly saw what someone looked like in the first few minutes of meeting them, that after then it was only an impression, colored by what you thought of them.

Jojo Moyes

#7. I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic lead, a musical.

Lee Van Cleef

#8. I'll never kick dogs, I'll never hurt a child, I'll never slap a woman - three things I won't do on film.

Lee Van Cleef

#9. You go where the work is. It can be in my own back yard, Israel, Spain, or Yugoslavia. We may have the greatest technical efficiency in the world, but our artistic values are not necessarily the best.

Lee Van Cleef

#10. Weave the circle, tightly sewn,
Let nothing evil or unknown
Enter within. Stay without
On pain of death, we cast you out.

Yasmine Galenorn

#11. One day, something happened. It made life very precious to me.

Lee Van Cleef

#12. People who live according to the pure code of honor are not governed by the profit motive; they are governed by the thymotic urge, the quest for recognition. They seek the sort of glory that can be won only by showing strength in confrontation with death.

David Brooks

#13. If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

Lee Van Cleef

#14. I hate it when pretty girls turn into tree.

Rick Riordan

#15. Movies are full of leading men, most of whom aren't working. It's much harder to find a good villain.

Lee Van Cleef

#16. It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching.

Octavia E. Butler

#17. How free you can become if you stop worrying about things that don't concern you!

Thomas Merton

#18. A lot of actors think that the more lines they have the more attention they get. That's bullshit. I make people look at me. I don't have to say a lot of words.

Lee Van Cleef

#19. I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

Lee Van Cleef

#20. By changing how you perceive things and how you act upon those perceptions, you will change your life.

Chris Prentiss

#21. Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo, and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.

Lee Van Cleef

#22. I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.

Lee Van Cleef

#23. Happiness is reinvented each day

Van Cleef & Arpels

#24. Bad guys have always been my bag ... I look mean without even trying.

Lee Van Cleef