Don Ameche Quotes

#1. Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

Alice Walker

#2. I was surprised I was nominated for an Oscar because 'Cocoon' was such an ensemble picture. But now I'm certain it wasn't only for 'Cocoon.' It was a lifetime award, so I accepted it in that vein, and it probably meant more from a recognition standpoint.

Don Ameche

#3. I think this is the sweetest tribute I have ever seen in this town.

Don Ameche

#4. I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

Don Ameche

#5. By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did whatever I could. Mainly television. Some Broadway. A lot of dinner theater work, which is not a very satisfactory medium.

Don Ameche

#6. In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and learning from their own dailies, and listening to the cameraman, and seeing what would work. Some of those guys could cut their movies in their head.

Don Ameche

#7. Men should be explorers no matter how old they are.

Don Ameche

#8. Maybe I like that you're available."
Oh, the romance. Her voice as dry as dirt, she said, "How am I not throwing myself at you right this very second?"
"It's a definite mystery.

Gena Showalter

#9. A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Lord Chesterfield

#10. If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football.

Robert Griffin III

#11. She meant it as a compliment.

Don Ameche

#12. God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.

Don Ameche

#13. There will be no 'Mommie Dearest' in the lives of my children, and no books like the one the Crosby boy wrote about Bing, or Bette Davis's daughter has written. My children love me very much, and they are loved.

Don Ameche

#14. I never 'went Hollywood.' Perhaps some of my behavior was detrimental to my career, but I couldn't go the route of Hollywood parties.

Don Ameche

#15. I will remain active in judo.

Ryoko Tani

#16. I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.

Don Ameche

#17. Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.

Man Ray

#18. I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.

Don Ameche

#19. Population pressure is the ultimate cause of every war.

Alexei Panshin

#20. Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.

Alice Sebold

#21. The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.

Don Ameche

#22. I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.

Don Ameche

#23. My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time.

Don Ameche

#24. I'm not like Henry Fonda. He lives to act. I've just had a dedication to do the best I could. When I don't have challenges, the days get long. But I do enjoy being on stage. If I do good work, I get a kick out of that.

Don Ameche

#25. The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

Benjamin E. Mays

#26. There are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.

Don Ameche

#27. We seem to be paying some of our employees an awful lot of money.

Don Ameche

#28. There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice.

Sunday Adelaja