Thumb Movie Quotes

#1. I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

Taylor Hackford

#2. We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us; nor is it to be wonder'd at in children, who better understand what they see than what they hear.

John Locke

#3. God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.

Robert McKee

#4. You might say, 'What a dreadful day', without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react to are not dreadful. They are as they are. What is dreadful is your reaction, your inner resistance to it, and the emotion that is created by that resistance.

Eckhart Tolle

#5. New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

James MacDonald

#7. I'm a very curious person. And most people are charmed by curiosity - especially if you are curious about them or what they are doing ... unless they are breaking into a car or something.

Ari Marcopoulos

#8. Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.

Horace

#9. Hugh Liedtke had a simple rule of thumb: Pick a name that started with either A or Z, so you would be first or last in the telephone listings. With that in mind, the team chose Zapata Petroleum Corporation, after the Marlon Brando movie Viva Zapata!, which was playing in Midland.

Jon Meacham