Top 100 Sanford Quotes
#1. Sanford and Son is more than just a name. It's a condition, a dynasty, an empire. This here is the finest pile of junk of the world.
Redd Foxx
#2. Um, yeah. For instance, take, you know, take, for instance, the issue of -- I'm drawing a blank, and I hate it when I do that, particularly on television.
-- potential McCain VP candidate Mark Sanford, asked on CNN to name differences in economic policy between Bush and McCain
Mark Sanford
#3. I was deeply influenced by an Episcopal laywoman named Agnes Sanford, who in her day was quite famous as a faith healer, which is a term I've always distrusted, because it conjures up charlatanry. She was not a charlatan. She was the real thing, and she had had remarkable healings.
Frederick Buechner
#4. When I grew up, my family, we sat down, all of us to watch 'Good Times,' 'Sanford and Son,' all those shows that were out at that time.
Magic Johnson
#5. I don't really have a method or a technical process. I studied [Sanford] Meisner, and that's the thing that really works for me. That sort of instinctual, in the moment, what the other actors do, working off them and letting the story unfold, as opposed to having an idea of what the story should be.
Maria Bello
#6. When you watched Sanford and Son you didn't want to have sex with everybody you saw just Grady.
Tina Fey
#7. I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.
Sam Rockwell
#8. What emerged from the doorway can only be described as how I envision a love-child between Grady from Sanford & Son and a small goat. There before us was The Voodoo Queen.
Scott Burkett
#9. I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.
Redd Foxx
#10. Lake Mary, Florida. He also serves as senior minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's in Sanford, Florida,
R.C. Sproul
#11. I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.
Robert Duvall
#12. On one hand, liberals are enraged at the heinousness of Mark Sanford - whom they didn't vote for - for not resigning and, on the other, they're enraged at Palin - whom they also didn't vote for - for resigning.
Ann Coulter
#13. I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five years and became a member of the Actors Studio. What I studied came right from the horse's mouth. My students have a lot to learn from me, and I am so eager to share it.
Lainie Kazan
#14. I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.
Brad Dourif
#15. Seventh Generation's work with Carol Sanford made me a better values-based leader.
Jeffrey Hollender
#16. The area around the MAV looks like the set of Sanford and Son. I learned about Sanford and Son from Lewis's collection. Seriously, that woman needs to see someone about her seventies problem.
Andy Weir
#17. Well? Sanford prompted. She looked at him.
"Well what?"
"What was the point? Why did you do this?"
She stared at him in obvious confusion. "I wanted to help."
"Shouldn't that count for something?
R. Lee Smith
#18. Mind-body integration is more than a personal health strategy. It is a movement of consciousness that can change the world.
Matthew Sanford
#20. I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.
Sanford I. Weill
#22. You know it's all right to be wrong, but it's not all right not to try.
Sanford Meisner
#23. National Socialism brought dream and conformism together into something satanic. Each
Milton Sanford Mayer
#24. Technique is something that you use if you need it. Otherwise, to hell with it.
Sanford Meisner
#26. If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.
Sanford I. Weill
#27. Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.
Sanford Meisner
#28. Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars.
Sanford Biggers
#29. Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances
Sanford Meisner
#32. Our only reality is our perception of reality.
Ruth Sanford
#33. But a fix, some magic cure to his "poor" status, was really only a dream; reality usually took precedence over everything else, especially dreams.
M.L. Sanford
#34. I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.
Sanford I. Weill
#35. Find in yourself those human things which are universal.
Sanford Meisner
#37. We simply have to become more competitive as a state if we're going to be successful in creating jobs, bringing capital investment and raising income levels here in South Carolina.
Mark Sanford
#38. Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.
Sanford Meisner
#39. I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.
Sanford I. Weill
#40. I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.
Sanford I. Weill
#42. I think it would be much better for the country and for (Clinton) personally (to resign). I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone.
Mark Sanford
#43. Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.
Sanford I. Weill
#44. That's very different, picking up the impulse instead of picking up the cue.
Sanford Meisner
#45. A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.
Sanford I. Weill
#46. Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.
Mark Sanford
#47. I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.
Isabel Sanford
#48. Prayer is not a matter of getting what we want the most. Prayer is a matter of giving ourselves to God and learning His laws, so that He can do through us what He wants the most.
Agnes Sanford
#50. And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.
Sanford I. Weill
#51. And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.
Sanford I. Weill
#52. I think it would be nearly impossible to find someone who has contributed more to South Carolina than Carroll Campbell. His efforts to transform South Carolina's economy and raise our state's income levels are still paying dividends today.
Mark Sanford
#53. With a developed imagination there's no place you can't go.
Sanford Meisner
#54. On this new level you live, you have been living more comfortably every day, with new morals, new principles. You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things that your father, even in Germany, could not have imagined.
Milton Sanford Mayer
#55. If we judge others, it is because we are judging something in ourselves of which we are unaware.
John A. Sanford
#56. I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. Jewish Proverb (p. 117)
Jenny Sanford
#57. My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.
Sanford I. Weill
#58. The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.
Sanford I. Weill
#59. The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.
Sanford I. Weill
#61. The only way to deal with yourself as an actor is to follow the emotional truth of what you have to do under the imaginary circumstances. And as you develop you become confident. You come to believe in what you're doing and trust it because it's out of you.
Sanford Meisner
#62. He lay on his back, watching the great river of stars wash across the sky. Worlds above, worlds below. It made him feel very small. And he found comfort in his smallness. The hurts and transience of his life seemed less important when held against the vastness of the universe.
James R. Sanford
#63. From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.
Sanford I. Weill
#64. I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' would catch on?
Isabel Sanford
#65. Hitlerism was a mass flight to dogma, to the barbaric dogma that had not been expelled with the Romans, the dogma of the tribe, the dogma that gave every man importance only in so far as the tribe was important and he was a member of the tribe.
Milton Sanford Mayer
#66. All my work is created from personal experiences. My hope is always that others will see it as a gateway, develop their own message and feel a part of the art.
Sanford Biggers
#67. Yes. The all-volunteer force is comprised of a very small percentage of the population. Therefore, fewer citizens have a personal interest in military matters and are not personally impacted.
Sanford Bishop
#69. The truth of your instincts is the root of your foundation.
Sanford Meisner
#72. I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in.
Sanford I. Weill
#73. If you have the emotion, it infects you and the audience. If you don't have it don't bother; just say your lines as truthfully as you are capable of doing. You can't fake emotion.
Sanford Meisner
#74. My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.
Sanford I. Weill
#75. Remember, you may choose your sin, but you cannot chose the consequences.
Jenny Sanford
#76. Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.
Mark Sanford
#78. What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.
Sanford I. Weill
#79. There is a source within us that always works to bring things into the light.
John A. Sanford
#80. As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.
Agnes Sanford
#81. "I've become a huge fan of term limits," the former aide said, "because Armey and the others in leadership used to be just like you and your crew in their approach to spending. They have changed over the years."
Mark Sanford
#82. I've been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what we've done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.
Sanford I. Weill
#83. the title of our book lightly, either. Let Go To Grow is all about our vision of the future of business, its implications, and our best practices. It's about the future of your business too. We begin the book with some sobering marketplace realities and offer a set of management principles
Linda S. Sanford
#84. In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.
Mark Sanford
#85. I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.
Sanford I. Weill
#86. If there's anything in life you consider worthwhile achieving - go for it. I was told many times to forget show business - I had nothing going for me. But I pursued it, anyway. Voila!
Isabel Sanford
#87. The American actor is very lucky ... Because so little is asked of him.
Sanford Meisner
#88. Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe, and the actor provides the river. The river is the actor's thoughts and emotions.
Sanford Meisner
#90. I'm not as involved in every little thing as I used to be.
Sanford I. Weill
#92. I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.
Sanford I. Weill
#93. Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.
Sanford Meisner
#94. One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.
Sanford I. Weill
#95. Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.
Mark Sanford
#96. And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.
Sanford I. Weill
#97. It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large measure on a healthy mistrust of the state.
Sanford Levinson
#98. You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.
Sanford Meisner
#99. Our company is working with Disney to create a game for children between the ages of maybe four and 12, so we can teach them what the capitalist system is all about.
Sanford I. Weill
#100. Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.
Sanford Meisner
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