Joel Siegel Quotes

#1. There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

Joel Siegel

#2. Dermatology ... this young daughter of medicine ...

Paul Gerson Unna

#3. Follow your passion.

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#4. I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

Joel Siegel

#5. Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Princess Diana

#6. When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

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#7. I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.

Annabelle Selldorf

#8. I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didn't stop till it was over.

Joel Siegel

#9. I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.

Joel Siegel

#10. If one is destined to go wrong, he will not believe the truth but will believe something else altogether.

Dada Bhagwan

#11. If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.

Joel Siegel

#12. I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a potter for a number of years and earned a BFA in art before going to graduate school for creative writing.

Anna Journey

#13. Real movie producers aren't this nice.

Joel Siegel

#14. I liked television, and television liked me.

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#15. The studio should not have released this film.

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#16. Some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it. This isn't Curious George Uses the Potty.

William Goldman

#17. Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don't bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year.

Joel Siegel

#18. They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news.

Joel Siegel

#19. Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'

Tom Peters

#20. We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders.

Joel Salatin

#21. Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.

Joel Siegel

#22. The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.

Phyllis Schlafly

#23. You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator.

Joel Siegel

#24. Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings & emotions/

Will Smith

#25. What I've realised is that when I walk into a club, I don't feel good, I feel uncomfortable. I wonder what to do, I look for my drink ... it's not necessarily an enjoyable experience, so why would I put myself through that?

Shiloh Fernandez

#26. As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

Chanakya

#27. Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

Joel Siegel

#28. I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question.
Tell me," I said.
You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.

Ravi Zacharias

#29. What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it ... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff.

Joel Siegel

#30. What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

Joel Siegel