Garson Quotes

#1. My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.

Jamie Dornan

#2. You scared?" asked Garson.
"Yes," I said, "but what about?

Charles Bukowski

#3. It's hot,' [Mulder] said, dropping on the bench beside [Scully].
'It's July, Mulder,' Garson reminded him. 'It's New Mexico. What did you expect?'
'Heat I can get at home. An oven I already have in my apartment.

Charles Grant

#4. If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#5. In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

Garson Kanin

#6. It used to be, people were afraid to talk about Social Security. Now, I think people should be afraid not to talk about Social Security and start coming up with some solutions.

George W. Bush

#7. TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, 'Oh, that's my dumb friend', or, 'That's my funny friend.' A true best friend, a sidekick, has to be a little deeper then that. You have to feel like there's nothing either character won't do. That someone really, really has their back.

Willie Garson

#8. Romance makes a radiant sunrise out of every moment.

Thomas Kinkade

#9. A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Garson Kanin

#10. Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Garson Kanin

#11. I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

Garson Kanin

#12. There is a way out, but the way out is really a way within.

Ken Wilber

#13. If you're going to be typed, there are worse molds in which you can be cast.

Greer Garson

#14. The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed ... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

Garson Kanin

#15. Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

Greer Garson

#16. 'Sex and The City' had very strong gag orders as to what we could say and not say.

Willie Garson

#17. Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity.

Willie Garson

#18. As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

Garson Kanin

#19. I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

Greer Garson

#20. Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid.

Joseph Delaney

#21. So it can be seen that the trouble with the motion picture art was (and is) that it is too much an industry; and the trouble with the motion picture industry is that it is too much an art. It is out of this basic contradiction that most of the ills of the form arise.

Garson Kanin

#22. Not everyone looks like Brad Pitt. There are people in the world that look like me. I think people feel that I could be living next door to them. That has much more effect on me.

Willie Garson

#23. All I know about getting something that you want is that there are three essential things: wanting, trying and getting the opportunity, the breaks. None works alone without the others. Wanting is basic. Trying is up to you. And the breaks - I do know this, they always happen.

Greer Garson

#24. I am starting to explore directing, maybe in the future in the world of 'White Collar.'

Willie Garson

#25. My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

Lars Von Trier

#26. When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

Greer Garson

#27. I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life
toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things
and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict.

Greer Garson

#28. The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.

Garson Kanin

#29. I'm like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. If I'm not ready, the sled isn't going to go.

Kevin Garnett

#30. Nothing reminds one of how shitty inequality is more often than the fact that there are companies who make and people who use 1-ply toilet papers.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#31. I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.

Wayne White

#32. Men who tell you they read the Ann Summers catalogue for the articles are lying

Rita Rudner

#33. There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.

Garson Kanin