Van Cleef Quotes

#1. Bad guys have always been my bag ... I look mean without even trying.

Lee Van Cleef

#2. He told me it was First, by Van Cleef & Arpels.

Elaine Sciolino

#3. A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

Havelock Ellis

#4. I am who I am, love me If you can, hate me if you want

Melanie Monares

#5. Happiness is reinvented each day

Van Cleef & Arpels

#6. I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.

Lee Van Cleef

#7. Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo, and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.

Lee Van Cleef

#8. I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

Lee Van Cleef

#9. A lot of actors think that the more lines they have the more attention they get. That's bullshit. I make people look at me. I don't have to say a lot of words.

Lee Van Cleef

#10. The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

Marya Mannes

#11. Movies are full of leading men, most of whom aren't working. It's much harder to find a good villain.

Lee Van Cleef

#12. If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

Lee Van Cleef

#13. One day, something happened. It made life very precious to me.

Lee Van Cleef

#14. At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.'

Laurence Yep

#15. Zeke slipped a hand under Jacqs and curled closer to him.
Tomorrow would come, but Jacqs lived in today, and this today was perfect.

Lyn Gala

#16. You go where the work is. It can be in my own back yard, Israel, Spain, or Yugoslavia. We may have the greatest technical efficiency in the world, but our artistic values are not necessarily the best.

Lee Van Cleef

#17. I creep like a thief, no doubt the man's swift,
I'm more magnificent than Lee Van Cleef

Diamond D

#18. you're delicious and the right man will adore every curve.

Eloisa James

#19. Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

Nick Clooney

#20. I'll never kick dogs, I'll never hurt a child, I'll never slap a woman - three things I won't do on film.

Lee Van Cleef

#21. I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic lead, a musical.

Lee Van Cleef

#22. For instance, I have seen many cry out against sin in the pulpit who yet abide it well enough in their own heart, home, and manner of life.
Potiphar's

John Bunyan

#23. And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.

Kurt Loder

#24. I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the more flamboyant, imaginative things. I lusted after costume jewelry. My husband was a very lucky man.

Iris Apfel

#25. In Echo Park, a girl with a voice was listening, and I sang for her, so that when her day came, she wouldn't be afraid.

C.D. Reiss