Top 86 Quotes About Zahn
#1. Steve Zahn and I like to go to dinner, and we love to go to Chef Donald Link's Herb Saint.
Kim Dickens
#2. I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.
Brit Hume
#3. A Jedi can't get so caught up in matters of galactic importance that it interferes with his concern for individual people.
Timothy Zahn
#4. History is on the move, Captain. Those who cannot keep up will be left behind, to watch from a distance.
Timothy Zahn
#5. With none of Vader's backstory available at the time, and having just invented the Noghri species for this story, I came up with the idea that Vader might have designed his mask to look like a stylized version of a Noghri face, the better to facilitate his command of the death commando squads.
Timothy Zahn
#6. Courage wasn't a matter of taking the whole mountain in a single massive leap. Courage was taking it one step at a time, doing what was necessary now, preparing for the next step, and refusing to worry about whether some step in the future would be the one that would break him.
Timothy Zahn
#7. Some people will not respond to reason. Others refuse to consider alternatives to their normal pattern of behavior. In such cases, an unexpected breaking of one's own patterns can be an effective tool.
Timothy Zahn
#8. I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.
Steve Zahn
#9. You're not the last of the old Jedi, Luke, you're the first of the new
Timothy Zahn
#10. The scene that made me furious was watching Padme, a woman who just gave birth to two beautiful children, just giving up the will to live.
Timothy Zahn
#11. For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.
Timothy Zahn
#12. It goes all the way back to 'Psycho.' Movies with twists like that are memorable because they're so simple.
Steve Zahn
#13. I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.
Steve Zahn
#14. I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play.
Paula Zahn
#16. A writer absolutely has to make his villains clever and competent. It's no fun - and no challenge - for the heroes to get out of trouble without sweating about it first.
Timothy Zahn
#17. The way an Ugnaught gets to be an old Ugnaught is by being smart.
Timothy Zahn
#18. But there's a school of thought that says if you're going to go down in flames anyway, you might as well be the one lighting the matches.
Timothy Zahn
#19. I'm convinced women actually think they can read minds. Like when a woman goes, "I can tell you don't want to hang out with me today." And you're like, "What are you talking about? I actually do!"
Steve Zahn
#20. Chiss eyes were a bit better than those of humans, their visible spectrum edging a bit into the infrared. Apparently, their ears were better, too.
Timothy Zahn
#21. I've done flowers and kicked myself. Flowers are so lame.
Steve Zahn
#22. If you accept the position of governor, part of your job is to make sure all your people have a decent shot at making something good out of their lives.
Timothy Zahn
#23. Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.
Timothy Zahn
#24. One is born with a unique set of talents and abilities. One must choose which of those talents to nurture, which to set aside for a time, which to ignore completely. Sometimes
Timothy Zahn
#25. I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just want to act.
Steve Zahn
#26. There is satisfaction in defeating an enemy. But one must never allow oneself to become complacent. There are always more enemies to be identified, faced, and vanquished.
Timothy Zahn
#28. Then I am alone, he told himself. I am the last of the Jedi.
Timothy Zahn
#29. My sister gave me a big bucket of Cool Whip. Isn't that awesome? For two weeks I basically watched Emergency! and ate cool whip with a spoon.
Steve Zahn
#30. Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
Timothy Zahn
#31. Which meant he was alone here. Even more alone than he'd realized. He took a deep breath. He wasn't alone. The Force was with him.
Timothy Zahn
#32. Once you make a decision, you can never go back and change it. Sometimes, farther down the line, you have a chance to alter its effects. But the original decision is there forever.
Timothy Zahn
#33. If there was one thing she'd learned in this business, it was to never tell a client you couldn't do something.
Timothy Zahn
#34. And those who stand in our way," he added softly, "will not watch at all.
Timothy Zahn
#35. I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.
Steve Zahn
#36. I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.
Steve Zahn
#37. But Lando was a gambler. A true gambler never folded when he still had cards left to play.
Timothy Zahn
#38. I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.
Steve Zahn
#39. Leave it to the Alderaanians to slap a cheery end on a nice little grisly children's morality tale.
Timothy Zahn
#40. I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy.
Steve Zahn
#41. One spoke to him in person, or one did not speak to him at all.
Timothy Zahn
#42. I'm always attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero.
Steve Zahn
#43. A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath.
Timothy Zahn
#44. A friend need not be kept either within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path. If
Timothy Zahn
#45. My point is that true leaders ... understand the possible consequences of their decisions, and are willing to bear that weight. The question is whether that's a step you're willing to take.
-Carlist Rieekan
Timothy Zahn
#46. I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.
Steve Zahn
#47. For the Jedi, there is no emotion; there is peace.
Timothy Zahn
#48. When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.
Timothy Zahn
#49. PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you're on set, all day? That's what I do in my trailer, I just play PlayStation 3.
Steve Zahn
#50. Of his. The same earnestness that had stopped her from killing that insane Joruus C'baoth back on Jomark.
Timothy Zahn
#51. The choices of one shape the futures of all.
Timothy Zahn
#52. I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.
Steve Zahn
#53. Sometimes a commander's decisions must be made without regard for how they will be perceived," Thrawn said. "What matters is that the commander does what is necessary for victory.
Timothy Zahn
#54. You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.
Steve Zahn
#55. Fear and anger, Yoda had often warned him, were slaves to the dark side. Vaguely, Luke wondered which side curiosity served.
Timothy Zahn
#56. Firmly, Luke put the thought out of his mind. Mourning the loss of a friend and teacher was both fitting and honorable, but to dwell unnecessarily on that loss was to give the past too much power over the present. The
Timothy Zahn
#57. She was here, and it was now; and as the emperor's instructors had so often drummed into her, the first item of business was to fit into her surroundings. And that meant not looking like an escapee from the medical ward
Timothy Zahn
#58. One of the first rules the Emperor had drummed into her [Mara Jade] so long ago was to blend in as best she could with her surroundings
Timothy Zahn
#59. But I would also warn against diverting too many of the Empire's resources from a flexible navy of capital ships and starfighters to massive projects that can bring the Imperial presence to only one system at a time.
Timothy Zahn
#60. Failure to act always brings consequences. But sometimes, those consequences can be turned to one's advantage.
Timothy Zahn
#61. I love Toronto, I have spent a lot of time up there working. There's a lot of stuff going on there.
Steve Zahn
#62. I know something about a lot of things," she countered evenly. "That's why you're grooming me to be your lieutenant, remember?" - Mara Jade
Timothy Zahn
#63. I love 'Safe Men.' Now it's getting all this culty kind of - it just came out on DVD. That was awesome. I read that script, I never laughed so hard in my life.
Steve Zahn
#64. For if one is remembered by a friend, one is never truly gone. -
Timothy Zahn
#65. Are you ready? I'm three blocks past ready. Pardon? Skip it.
Timothy Zahn
#66. Still, even when false, legends can be most informative.
Timothy Zahn
#67. We're just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking.
Paula Zahn
#68. Hesitated; swooped again; hesitated again; swooped once more
Timothy Zahn
#69. No one is immune from failure. All have tasted the bitterness of defeat and disappointment. A warrior must not dwell on that failure, but must learn from it and continue on. But
Timothy Zahn
#70. Where there's life, there's the hope of change.
Timothy Zahn
#71. Alliances are useful in some situations. In others, they are absolutely vital. But
Timothy Zahn
#72. Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.
Timothy Zahn
#73. I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)
Timothy Zahn
#74. If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer.
Timothy Zahn
#75. Let me tell you something, planes and kids ... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.
Steve Zahn
#76. My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.
Paula Zahn
#77. The fear of the violent and the lawless is no less a tyranny than the edicts that come from the Emperor's throne.
Timothy Zahn
#78. I've had more people come up to me about 'Saving Silverman' than anything else. That and 'That Thing You Do!' But 'Saving Silverman' is the one I get most often. And I love that.
Steve Zahn
#79. If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent discrepancy. If there's one thing we authors are good at, it's hand-waving.
Timothy Zahn
#80. You happened to me," she told him, her voice more fatigued than embittered. "You came out of a grubby sixth-rate farm on a tenth-rate planet, and destroyed my life." - Mara Jade
Timothy Zahn
#81. You have to make something good. Just because all the hot actors show up and the money is there and the explosives are ready, it doesn't matter.
Steve Zahn
#82. You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.
Steve Zahn
#84. What's hard in movies is to have a consistent tone throughout a movie. Whatever that is.
Steve Zahn
#85. No, of course not,' he agreed in a tone that implied he'd heard both the words I'd said and the words I hadn't said and would be mulling them over later on his own.
Timothy Zahn
#86. Most people laugh at situations rather than a tagline anyway.
Steve Zahn
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