Kaufman Quotes

#1. As much as I enjoyed yoga courses, it was hard to make time for them. Generally speaking, my work arrangements were flexible, so it was mostly a psychological problem: it was hard to convince myself it was acceptable to go twist my body into knots for two hours when there was work to be done.

Josh Kaufman

#2. I never told a joke in my life.

Andy Kaufman

#3. Lilac won't talk to me again. There's a tremor. Lilac won't kiss me again. I won't hear her laugh. My lungs constrict. Why am I doing this to myself ?

Amie Kaufman

#4. What is love anyway? From my new vantage point, I realize that love is nothing more than a messy conglomeration of need, desperation, fear of death and insecurity about penis size.

Charlie Kaufman

#5. Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.

George S. Kaufman

#6. When the light that kisses the back of her eyes were birthed, her ancestors were not yet born. How many human lives have ended in the time it took that light to reach her?

How many people have loved only to have lost? How countless, the hopes that have died?

But not this one.

Amie Kaufman

#7. And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.

Bel Kaufman

#8. We're hoping that this will also be the key to starting community events in a place where the whole community can come together. We've been working with the town on the total renovation.

Andy Kaufman

#9. One person's mess is merely another person's filing system.

Margo Kaufman

#10. I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.

Lloyd Kaufman

#11. Employees are the key to your success with customers. Treat them well!

Ron Kaufman

#12. Your key concerns at that stage?"

"Well, Miss LaRoux had a party she didn't want to miss, and I - "

"Major, you don't seem to understand the seriousness of your situation."

"Sure I do. What the hell do you think our key concerns were?

Amie Kaufman

#13. When Aquatics are overwhelmed, they seek out the tallest object in view, lie on their backs, put their heads against it and look up. The ritual is called litill, and its purpose is to remind believers that they are actually quite small and, therefore, so are their problems.

Andrew Kaufman

#14. The starting point is always now. The end is up to you.

Ron Kaufman

#15. The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?

Bel Kaufman

#16. The end is built into the beginning.

Charlie Kaufman

#17. I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short.

Amie Kaufman

#18. I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

Lloyd Kaufman

#19. You can't make positive discoveries that make your life better if you never try anything new.

Josh Kaufman

#20. The word 'question' is derived from the Latin quaerere 'to seek,' which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions are useful guides.

Paul A. Kaufman

#21. I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.

Charlie Kaufman

#22. There are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. This is a movie about health and about the body.

Charlie Kaufman

#23. I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

Clive Owen

#24. Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not.

Ron Kaufman

#25. Part of being alive is having life change us. The people around us, the events we live through, all of them shape us. And that's what I think you're afraid of. Maybe not of dying. But of this you, the you you've become, ceasing to exist.

Amie Kaufman

#26. But a hobby, like a habit, makes you forget about important things in life.

Margo Kaufman

#27. I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.

Charlie Kaufman

#28. In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - Orwell

Amie Kaufman

#29. Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

#30. Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A.

Philip Kaufman

#31. There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

Charlie Kaufman

#32. Perhaps bravery is simply the face humanity wraps around its collective madness.

Amie Kaufman

#33. 'Fast Food Nation' was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.

Lloyd Kaufman

#34. Retired general Colin Powell famously advocates collecting half of the information available, then making a decision, even though your information is clearly incomplete.

Josh Kaufman

#35. I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.

Charlie Kaufman

#36. What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis.

Kevin McDonald

#37. Are people being the least you expect of them, or the best they expect themselves to be?

Ron Kaufman

#38. Tarver lifts one hand to touch my face, tracing the curve of my cheek. "Lilac, if something happened to you," he murmurs, "I would be anything but fine.

Amie Kaufman

#39. If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it.

Andy Kaufman

#40. I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.

Charlie Kaufman

#41. The biggest thing that I came across, right off the bat, was that you can't shoot this like a regular movie with multiple takes. You have to, because it's such a protracted process, break it down to the frame and pretty much get one shot.

Charlie Kaufman

#42. most widespread gains in brain training come from programs that simultaneously address multiple aspects of a person, such as traditional martial arts training and enriched school curricula.

Scott Barry Kaufman

#43. That's a little homage in a way to that and also to create that sort of creepy atmosphere that Hitchcock did. Vertigo was one of his great movies that was shot right here in The City and it's about a woman and the psychological twists and so forth.

Philip Kaufman

#44. When the creative spirit stirs, it animates a style of being: a lifetime filled with the desire to innovate, to explore new ways of doing things, to bring dreams to reality.

Paul A. Kaufman

#45. Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price, only value.

Bel Kaufman

#46. Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

Bel Kaufman

#47. Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.

Bel Kaufman

#48. Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

Philip Kaufman

#49. Make your upper limit, no limit.

Ron Kaufman

#50. Are you moving forward, or just moving?

Ron Kaufman

#51. I've always been a fan of Andy Kaufman.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#52. I never knew it was possible to be so miserable in so many ways.

Amie Kaufman

#53. Most people would say I'm pretty cold, but I think of it more as ... private. People are always saying "how are you?" to each other, and I guess I don't see why I should answer such a personal question for just anyone.

Amie Kaufman

#54. Promise me that no matter what you hear, you won't go off on your own to investigate. I want your word. There's a command in his voice, soft as it is.

Amie Kaufman

#55. The quickest and easiest way to screw up your life is to take on too much debt.

Josh Kaufman

#56. She wants to distract me that night, keep us from revisiting the conversation about the fuse. I've considered telling her that if she wants to distract me, all she has to do is take her shirt off.

Amie Kaufman

#57. I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.

Charlie Kaufman

#58. More rain. If there's any more ran than this, I think, we'll need gills. We could swim up to the sky and leave this place with no need to wait for a rescue ship.

Amie Kaufman

#59. Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by their political, military and diplomatic illiteracy.

Gerald Kaufman

#60. How is it that I can want him so badly when he's only been gone from me for a minute?

Amie Kaufman

#61. Do what's right and you'll never go wrong.

Ron Kaufman

#62. And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing and all that stuff is done before you shoot the movie. That's an unusual way to work.

Charlie Kaufman

#63. But this guy ... this guy makes me pause. Makes me forget all of that. Dark, tumbly hair, thick brows, dangerously sweet eyes. Sensuous mouth, tiny smirk barely hidden at its corner. He's got a poets mouth. Artistic, expressive.

Amie Kaufman

#64. Service is the ultimate edge. Keep it sharp.

Ron Kaufman

#65. I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

Charlie Kaufman

#66. Service is taking action to create value for someone else.

Ron Kaufman

#67. I try when I'm writing to leave enough "space" for people to have their own interpretation, and not to direct it toward one conclusion. Then the audience would not be reacting, because they are being preached to or lectured at. I don't have that much to say that I think people should listen to me.

Charlie Kaufman

#68. My husband says that I'm afraid of heights, but that's not true. What I'm afraid of is falling.

Margo Kaufman

#69. She's gazing down at me, Stone-faced Chase, absolutely unforgiving, soot and ashes streaking her face like war paint.

Amie Kaufman

#70. And I liked this extreme character of de Sade.

Philip Kaufman

#71. A great leader makes what is visible in their mind, visible to all.

Ron Kaufman

#72. Abraham Lincoln was the father of a nation and had enormous beliefs that stood well.

Henry Kaufman

#73. I'll never retire as long as I live - that's like retiring from life! I'll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you're in good health, living is exciting on its own.

Bel Kaufman

#74. What, did he think I was just going to melt into his arms? Start a tragic and dramatic tale of star-crossed lovers on a war-torn planet?

Amie Kaufman

#75. All of it - for this. Leading us to a door we can't open, a password we don't have.

Meagan Spooner

#76. The universe was here before you, and it will go on after you. The only way it will remember you is if you do something worthy of remembrance.

Amie Kaufman

#77. There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.

Andy Kaufman

#78. Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

Herbert Kaufman

#79. The first step to delighting your customers is being there when they need you.

Ron Kaufman

#80. Quality is a choice. Choose to make it better.

Ron Kaufman

#81. I like actors - I used to be one.

Charlie Kaufman

#82. Preparation is good, but customers need results.

Ron Kaufman

#83. There are two ways to improve your service, and yourself: maximize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses.

Ron Kaufman

#84. When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.

Roy Lichtenstein

#85. Focus not on who you are, but on what you can do for others.

Ron Kaufman

#86. I'm not doing much at all. I mimght as well be a rag doll. Comes complete with matching shoes. Spine sold separately.

Amie Kaufman

#87. Your profits reflect the success of your customers.

Ron Kaufman

#88. If you're gonna play, play. Don't play!

Stephen F. Kaufman

#89. Options are often an overlooked form of value - flexibility is one of the Three Universal Currencies (discussed later). Find a way to give people more flexibility, and you may discover a viable business model.

Josh Kaufman

#90. Provide significant value to each subscriber on a regular basis. 2. Build a subscriber base and continually attract new subscribers to compensate for attrition. 3. Bill customers on a recurring basis. 4. Retain each subscriber as long as possible.

Josh Kaufman

#91. Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us - to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it is.

Andrew Kaufman

#92. I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep.People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'

Margo Kaufman

#93. Words not kept break more than a promise.

Ron Kaufman

#94. I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

Philip Kaufman

#95. ..Look out at the nothing and feel it looking back. Then you know exactly how much you add up to.

Amie Kaufman

#96. Forget everything else. Forget everyone else. You're exactly my kind of girl.

Amie Kaufman

#97. I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

Steve Martin

#98. Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

Philip Kaufman

#99. They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.

Philip Kaufman

#100. Her gun was twenty seconds away, her friends three minutes, and the police five minutes. Her choice was obvious.

Karin Kaufman