#makin

For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money. ↗

— Lizzy Caplan

#any #because #been #choices #consider

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#done #flowing #good #good man #green

You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested. ↗

— Howie Carr

#back #basically #edgar #fbi #find

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#crazy #devil #drive #even #faces

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#anybody #been #down #feel #hard

Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials. ↗

— David Zucker

#business #business partners #commercials #create #distribution

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#appeals #enormously #even #go #heroism

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#deeply #film #hardly #i #i can

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#estate #financial #greatest #income #makes

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#able #buying #cars #drafts #finding