Vittorio De Sica Quotes

#1. Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.

Vittorio De Sica

#2. I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.

Vittorio De Sica

#3. I wouldn't recommend [boxing] to any child of mine. I would rather he played golf or something.

Oscar De La Hoya

#4. Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Vittorio De Sica

#5. It is never wrong to do the right thing.

Mark Twain

#6. It doesn't seem right to throw dirt at you when you're dead ...

Sharon Sant

#7. Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

Wallace Stegner

#8. Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.

Francois Rabelais

#9. Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

Pema Chodron

#10. I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.

Clint Eastwood

#11. Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.

Beeban Kidron

#12. There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't. The past teaches us that some films were received badly, while others go sailing on.

Vittorio De Sica

#13. awful, but after the first one I stopped feeling stupid when

Janci Patterson

#14. The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, 'Miracle in Milan.' It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration.

Beeban Kidron

#15. Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

Izaak Walton

#16. Aft the more honour, forward the better man

Horatio Nelson

#17. It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.

Kyle D. Pruett