Top 100 Jacobson's Quotes
#1. It's not just jealousy because the Jacobson's are imprinting. There's a prophecy."
"A prophecy," I scoffed. "What is this, Harry Potter?
Shelly Crane
#2. Used to Sears, JC Penney, and Woolworth's, Birmingham's stores sounded foreign: Gucci, Jacobson's, and Dittrich Furs. Underground parking kept the shoppers flawlessly coifed and dry - a scene from a Hollywood movie.
Claudia Whitsitt
#4. Everything that occurs in your life is part of God's plan to wake you up.
Leonard Jacobson
#6. I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.
Nina Jacobson
#7. In terms of what's going to actually happen to me in the story, down towards the end of the season, I'm dying to know, but I just don't ask. If it's something that I think will really affect how I play it and it's information I need to know, than I'll ask, for sure.
Peter Jacobson
#8. I know I'm going to sound like an idiot, because I actually think that everybody's the nicest guy ever, but I'm telling you: George Clooney, Roland Emmerich, Sidney Lumet - these are literally the nicest people.
Peter Jacobson
#9. A waitress, bringing Finkler more hot water, interrupted Treslove's answer. Finkler always asked for more hot water no matter how much hot water had already been brought. It was his way of asserting power, Treslove thought. No doubt Nietzsche, too, ordered more hot water than he needed.
Howard Jacobson
#10. History's lesson is that bullies ultimately defeat themselves.
Howard Jacobson
#11. Me, me, me! Mine, mine, mine! I'm right, I'm right, I'm right. What's in it for me? How do I use this? How do I take advantage of it? This is the way of the ego. Own this within yourself and you will begin to release yourself from it.
Leonard Jacobson
#12. My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.
Peter Jacobson
#13. We knew that we wanted TheHunger Games to be PG-13 because she wrote the book for readers 12 and up, and we wanted them to be able to see the movie. It's a movie that is meant to be relevant to young people, and not exclude them, in any way.
Nina Jacobson
#14. I've been fortunate enough to match up the material I'm producing with the right buyer, the company that will make it and that wants it, and that isn't saying yes to be nice, but is saying yes because they want and need that movie and it's going to be important on their slate.
Nina Jacobson
#15. He would come to school balancing his night's dreams like an acrobat bearing a human pyramid on his shoulders.
Howard Jacobson
#16. Appreciate your friends and loved ones. There's no way of knowing what's coming next, so appreciate those who are close to you.
Lenny Jacobson
#17. It's not them, it's you. It's not there, it's here. It's not then, it's now.
Leonard Jacobson
#18. I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of my life.
Peter Jacobson
#19. We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.
Abbi Jacobson
#20. I can't imagine Hunger Games, even with its very popular books, being nearly a success that it's been without Jen Lawrence being the perfect person to play that role - a very modern celebrity, a very down-to-earth, accessible, celebrity.
Nina Jacobson
#21. With the moon, it's more subtle, and it reminds me of myself, the way part of the moon is almost always hidden. It takes time for the moon to show herself.
Megan Jacobson
#22. To be born with few brains, well, that's unfortunate. To be born with brains to spare and to waste them? That's a sin.
Megan Jacobson
#23. That's how vilification works. The victim ingests the views of his tormentor. If that's how I look, that's what I must be.
Howard Jacobson
#24. Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting.
Peter Jacobson
#25. It was very important to me to choose a director like Gary [Ross], whose instincts come from character, who's a storyteller, and who puts characters first.
Nina Jacobson
#26. It's an exciting time, when you can make your movie on a cellphone. If it's good, it WILL get noticed.
Nina Jacobson
#27. It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit.
Peter Jacobson
#28. When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.
Peter Jacobson
#29. Why things get canceled or not is so unbelievably out of actors' hands that it's one of those things where you've just got to ride with it.
Peter Jacobson
#30. It can really vary from movie to movie what the producer's role is and there are all kinds of producers. There are line producers who do a lot of the nuts and bolts work on the set.
Nina Jacobson
#31. I think the better the show usually it means that you've got a lot of good people, because it's sustaining itself. If there's negative energy, things tend to break down ultimately.
Peter Jacobson
#33. Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise.
Nina Jacobson
#34. Because you don't get to choose your parents, , and at some point you realise that maybe your parents just aren't able to parent very well, but we exist, and the only choice we've got in the whole situation is whether we're gonna love them anyway. It's as simple and messy and complicated as that
Megan Jacobson
#35. I suspect you're thinking of Pascal,' Finkler said, finally.'Only he said the opposite. He said you might as well wager on God because that way, even if He doesn't exist, you've nothing to lose. Whereas if you wager against God and He does exist ... '
'You're in the shit.
Howard Jacobson
#36. I never had to put myself in somebody else's shoes.
Nina Jacobson
#38. You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground.
Mark Z. Jacobson
#39. I was an executive before I was a producer, and I've seen franchise fever grow, over the course of my career. The one thing that people always forget is that it's only a franchise if audiences really want to see more of it. It's up to them. It's really not up to us.
Nina Jacobson
#40. It's not enough to 'like' and retweet. Best we express our love to all that we meet.
Walter E. Jacobson
#41. There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.
Nina Jacobson
#42. I don't usually get to play somebody who is, at least, nominally in charge. I'm usually playing somebody's lawyer or a doctor.
Peter Jacobson
#43. The soul's journey is from Oneness into separation, ultimately to return to Oneness."
~ Leonard Jacobson
Leonard Jacobson
#44. The naturally colored products aren't as bright as the synthetically colored products, they're not as attractive to consumers. But, you know, it's the kind of thing that consumers simply would get used to very quickly.
Michael F. Jacobson
#45. Only audiences decide what's a franchise. Only audiences decide what's a hit. I have always been mindful of not wanting to be the Miami Heat of movies.
Nina Jacobson
#46. Marriage is like a barbecue. When you light a barbecue, it's very exciting to see the flames. That's lovely, but you have to wait until the flames have died down. Everything that you want from a barbecue happens on the hot embers. You can't cook on those flames.
Howard Jacobson
#47. I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.
Abbi Jacobson
#48. T. S. Eliot told Auden tht the reason he played patience night after night was that it was the nearest thing to being dead.
Howard Jacobson
#49. It's definitely a tough blow to your morale to get fired.
Nina Jacobson
#50. Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head.
Peter Jacobson
#51. Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.
Howard Jacobson
#52. Because art, for all its adventuresomeness, is also capable of being the most recidivist of human activities, forever falling back in reaction to what was itself a reaction to something else.
Howard Jacobson
#53. When doing family entertainment, you don't actually worry about kids. You know what you can't do. But in terms of sensibility and sophistication and wit and ambition, aim for your own taste level, and kids will - if they're interested in the subject matter - be glad that you did.
Nina Jacobson
#54. When you're on a show for five years, everyone becomes friends. It's great.
Peter Jacobson
#55. I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.
Cecil Jacobson
#56. I wound up auditioning, wound up getting in, and I was off to the races: I was putting in four more years after school to train to be an actor. I was 26 years old, and I still had a locker, for Christ's sake!
Peter Jacobson
#57. He let himself be storm-tossed, riding her billowing sea. When she held him like this he could see nothing, but the colour of his blindness was the colour of waves breaking
Howard Jacobson
#58. I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.
Peter Jacobson
#59. The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart and rooted in American history and architecture. Nothing feels like it's not us, or couldn't be us, and I think that's very important.
Nina Jacobson
#60. In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.
Howard Jacobson
#61. When you read a book [The Hunger Games], you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination. In the book, it's great when she can push a button and food comes up, as per your order.
Nina Jacobson
#62. In Presence, there is no outcome. It is our involvement in the outcome that keeps us imprisoned in an imagined future. In Presence, there is only now.
Leonard Jacobson
#63. I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyer's mentality.
Nina Jacobson
#64. The most powerful decision-making part of the audience is women. Boys have a lot of impact on the industry, but it's often women who impact what stories get made.
Nina Jacobson
#65. Woody Allen, that was a dream come true, although I never really talked to him. Auditioning was fun, because you don't really hear much about the script. They just said, "They want a Woody Allen type," so of course I got the call.
Peter Jacobson
#66. If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt.
Leonard Jacobson
#68. In the evolution of the [The Hunger Games] movie, Gary [Ross] and I talked a lot about tonal bandwidth and making sure that the look and feel and style and choices of the movie stayed within a certain consistent bandwidth.
Nina Jacobson
#69. What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far looking ultimately becomes one's subject - these are important questions.
Howard Jacobson
#70. I think I've been able to be in some really good projects with some really good people.
Peter Jacobson
#71. When you're younger and you see something that really speaks to you, it's indelible in a way that's not the same as when you're an adult. So I'll always love reading books and making movies that resonate with young people.
Nina Jacobson
#72. A king without a queen is not a king. The main point of creation is the union of male and female.
Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson
#73. A large-scale wind, water and solar energy system can reliably supply the world's needs, significantly benefiting climate, air quality, water quality, ecology and energy security ... [T]he obstacles are primarily political, not technical.
Mark Z. Jacobson
#74. I had one really memorable line. It was all the words you're not allowed to say on the airwaves, so it's one long list of swear words. I knew it anyway, because I was a huge George Carlin fan.
Peter Jacobson
#75. It disguises it's thoughts as your thoughts, it's feelings with your feelings, you think it's you.
Leonard Jacobson
#76. It is a mistake to imagine that you can awaken in any kind of permanent way. There is only NOW and so you can only be awake now. Even the idea of permanence is an illusion. The question to ask is 'Am I awake and fully present NOW?' That question arises and is answered in perfect silence.
Leonard Jacobson
#77. Elephants can sense danger. They're able to detect an approaching tsunami or earthquake before it hits. Unfortunately, Jack did not have this talent. The day his life was turned completely upside down, he was caught unaware.
Jennifer Richard Jacobson
#78. The opportunity to perform. It's just the feeling of anticipation and then once you're in the middle of it - you get in the zone. That's what you hope for.
Lenny Jacobson
#80. As a producer, you can't break up w/your own project. It's like sleeping with someone that you don't like ... Forever.
Nina Jacobson
#81. Every show that comes out that's female driven is compared to the last female-driven show, as if it's taking over.
Abbi Jacobson
#82. I felt that with each movie, Gary [Ross] adopts a different style. He doesn't have one look that's the Gary Ross look, and I thought that was important.
Nina Jacobson
#83. Don't I look after you when you're ill?' 'You do. You're marvellous to me when I'm ill. It's when I'm well that you're no use.
Howard Jacobson
#84. When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.
Abbi Jacobson
#85. I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully.
Nina Jacobson
#86. Path To War was the last thing that John Frankenheimer directed, I think, before he died. I'm a huge U.S. history buff, and I studied the Vietnam era in college, so when I read the script, I was, like, "I really want to be in this thing so badly ... "
Peter Jacobson
#87. You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.'
Abbi Jacobson
#88. We walked out of this library building downtown, just on our way to lunch, and I was walking a few steps behind Travolta, and when he opened the door, it was as if Jesus had just walked out into the commons.
Peter Jacobson
#89. I was spending three days literally just kibitzing with Jack Nicholson at a table! It was heaven! And talk about a normal guy. My God, he was just so real and cool and relaxed and fun. And he was a great performer. He's such an actor. He really was so focused on every moment. It was great.
Peter Jacobson
#90. Projecting into the future with hopes, dreams and desires can never fulfill you. Only the present moment can fulfill you.
Leonard Jacobson
#92. When you awaken, you will see that this is Heaven on Earth, and everything in physical form is the body of God.
Leonard Jacobson
#93. Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director.
Peter Jacobson
#94. Every moment you are present, there is a little less darkness in our world.
Leonard Jacobson
#95. Awakening is not something you achieve. It is something you relax into.
Leonard Jacobson
#96. Elephants love reunions. They recognize one another after years and years of separation and greet each other with wild, boisterous joy. There's bellowing and trumpeting, ear flapping and rubbing. Trunks entwine.
Jennifer Richard Jacobson
#97. Be the kind of person that sees an obstacle as a Mountain, and throws on their hiking gear
Casar Jacobson
#98. Was it better then - measuring the loss - not to know happiness at all? Better to go through life waiting for what never came, because that way you had less to mourn?
Howard Jacobson
#99. The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select.
Howard Jacobson
#100. Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.
Peter Jacobson
