John Preston Quotes

#1. Christian Bale has a kind of genetically engineered handsomeness that's perfect for [John Preston]. He's also a better actor than he ever gets credit for being.

Richard Roeper

#2. Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Victor Hugo

#3. I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I loved 'L'Avventura' and 'Persona' and all Fellini movies and like everybody else I loved John Ford. Then and now, I loved Preston Sturges, maybe above anyone.

Mike Nichols

#4. Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.

Philip Sidney

#5. The way to get better pornography is to give pornographers better sex.

John Preston

#6. I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.

Damon Lindelof

#7. Dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.

Arthur Golden

#8. Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.

Sharon Gless

#9. Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.

Coco Chanel

#10. I've never been typed. John Wayne played 'that guy' all the time - mostly because that's all he could do. Gable played Gable parts, and Bob Taylor played Bob Taylor parts, whether he was in armor or a full-dress suit. I resisted that.

Robert Preston

#11. Pride puffs one up with a false sense of independence. Proud people always feel that they can live independently from God and from other people. Proud people feel entitled to do what they want when they want to.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

#12. I know, for me, you know, my generation - I never would have known anything about Robert Preston's performance in 'The Music Man' if there hadn't been a film where he played the part. I just heard how great he was on Broadway way before my time.

John Lloyd Young

#13. Winning is something, but participation is everything.

Debasish Mridha

#14. I brush my teeth with a leg of fried chicken, and gravy is my toothpaste.

Jarod Kintz

#15. I love 'Call of Duty;' I'm a huge fan, but I started off with 'Medal of Honor' and I stuck with what I knew. I never got into the online play with people, across the world, across the country.

Mehcad Brooks