Preminger's Quotes

#1. Mort Sahl, while attending a preview of Otto Preminger's film Exodus, stood up and called out, Otto, let my people go!

Mort Sahl

#2. But that is like saying that the hole in the sand looks like the stick that you made the hole in the sand with. Holes in the sand and sticks are worlds apart. To put what happened into language would be like trying to describe a stick by telling you about the hole in the sand.

Werner Erhard

#3. The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.

Tony Hsieh

#4. What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.

Otto Preminger

#5. I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.

Rob Lowe

#6. I don't have a lot of desires, you see; I feel so lucky. God has give me a lot of things already; there's nothing to ask for.

Shreya Ghoshal

#7. Every minute of life I take a risk; it's part of the enjoyment.

Otto Preminger

#8. You cant run a football game in Tiger Stadium without 1,500-1,600 people to help,

Skip Bertman

#9. Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.

Otto Preminger

#10. I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

Otto Preminger

#11. If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#12. Life is all about love. Everything - hate, lust, money, power, death, birth - it all stems from love. If life were put in a giant pot and boiled like a piece of chicken, all the fat would melt away, and what you'd be left with is love.

J. Matthew Nespoli

#13. My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

Halle Berry

#14. Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved never to wage war again, the colored will act differently and become rulers of the world.

Oswald Spengler

#15. I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.

Otto Preminger

#16. When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said hair was like grass: if you mow it, then it grows back stronger. So I went to Brittany, where nobody knew me, and I shaved my head. When it grew back - only the fringes!

Otto Preminger

#17. Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.

Otto Preminger

#18. I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.

Otto Preminger

#19. Cry you little monsters!

Otto Preminger

#20. I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

Otto Preminger

#21. When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.

Otto Preminger

#22. Mind out of the gutter, Suze. Eros is only one kind of love, eh? Ancient Greeks recognised four.

Peter Watts

#23. I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

Otto Preminger

#24. This is a grave. There is no honor here in broken tools and old bones, only in the deeds of our children.

Mike Mignola

#25. Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

Ginny Brown-Waite

#26. The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.

William Gurnall