Joe Lycett Quotes

#1. I want people to do what they want to do because when they feel comfortable it seems to translate better on screen. It is when you put people in a straitjacket that it doesn't seem to translate very well at all. The individuals I work with are usually people I know.

Steve McQueen

#2. We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Horace

#3. I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.

Kathleen McGowan

#4. Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#5. I realize that I'm not going to be doing interviews for the cover of 'GQ' for the rest of my life, know what I mean? I'm on TV because I play basketball really well.

Chris Paul

#6. Real scientists do not take vacations. They take field trips ...

Edward O. Wilson

#7. Fry me an optimist for breakfast.

Mark Twain

#8. It was quite likely the best advice I've ever received. I can't help but wonder what my life would have been like if I'd actually followed it.

Tom Robbins

#9. I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

David Ogden Stiers