#hamm

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#beating #billy #bite #comedy #crystal

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail. ↗

— Oliver Reed

#carpenter #good #hammer #i #i do

We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way. ↗

— Susan Rice

#depicting #evil #mohammed #prophet #responses

Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more. ↗

— Patti Smith

#heavens #know #mapped #mohammed #more

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#became #between #comedy #entertainments #hammerstein

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#generation #hammerstein #hits #movies #out

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#during #father #hammerstein #i #many

I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#danger #hammer #i #mike #original

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#any #because #bellows #between #capital

My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#around #changing #come #constantly #day